Wool roving in a madder dye bath.

~120ft of pre alum mordanted wool roving in an uncomfortably warm bath of 100%WOF madder juice. Also, a whole lot of dissolved tums tables as our water here is insanely soft.

Fingers crossed for a nice red.

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Two layers of wool in perpendicular directions.

The wool was wetted and then wrapped tightly in a reed mat. Then bounded in string.

Ten minutes of vigous rolling under the palm of my hands and periodic applications of boiling water get the wool felted into a sheet.

The wool now fully separated from the screen and waiting to dry.

While I'm waiting for my wool to drip dry, I decided to make a felted wool sample for my display. The reed screens are used in Kyrgyzstan to make their elaborate felted rugs and wall panels.

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Dark and light striped reed screen with diagonal twinning.

Dark and light striped reed screening in a dark big, light big, dark thin, light big. Dark big repeat pattern.

Dark and light striped reed screens depicted in red and blue, and yellow and green combination.

The floor mat inside the yurt is a combination of thin and thick stripes in red blue and yellow.

So I found a few more images of reed screens pre 1600. It looks like the best I can document is solid strip patterns and not the ornate patterns from the 19-20th century.

Blues, reds, yellows, and greens. Straight twinning and diagonals.
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