A lot of ecru and a little brown, that's what you get as natural colors by shearing the sheep.
To expand the range, it is necessary to dye.
A process that also changes the appearance of the fabric.
Three dyeing processes exist.
The first and most common is to dye the wool when the fiber is not yet a yarn.
We speak of
"top dye",
which gives a plain fabric a very homogeneous color, but with very slight surface nuances.
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Conversely, to obtain many shades, the yarns are dyed, it is the
“yarn dye”.
This is the famous end-to-end or mottled.
We also speak of flamed effect when the shades are more supported vertically.
Of course, a fabric with patterns, checks or stripes, must use one or the other, or even both of these possibilities to present threads of different colors.
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Wool, winter and summer
The third method, the piece dyed or
"piece dye"
only allows to obtain plains.
There, the draper produces miles of ecru fabric, and the dye…
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