Sharing Information about fibers, yarns, quilting, dye techniques,
links and more
previously located: Straw Into Gold - Berkeley, CA
94702
Our address:
160 23rd St., Richmond, Calif. 94804
Note: This is not a retail shop. We are
now wholesale only.
If you wish to buy our yarns and supplies,
check the SHOP LIST link at the top of this page.
A list of all our yarns is here.Do you have a Knitting Shop ? Or are you a Production Knitter?
For information on wholesale purchase of yarns and knitting needles -
see the Crystal Palace Yarns section of this web site.
(note: Straw Into Gold no longer sells dyes)
- Dyeing wool / protein fibers with Acid Levelling Dyes (Kiton type)
- Multi-color techniques for dyeing with Acid Dyes, making "painted" yarns
- Painting, spraying and printing with Procion dyes on cotton, rayon, silk, etc.
- History of Dyes from 2600 BC to 20th C. , from a talk given by Susan Druding at Convergence 1982
- Simplified Procion Dyeing Instructions, for the occasional dyer
- TAN Reprint: History and Chemistry of Fiber Reactive Dyes, emphasis on Cibacron F (aka Sabracron F), article from 1982
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See Dec. 2000 photos of Straw Into Gold's old Berkeley location - HERE
Susan's
Quilting Articles - on
Equilters.com
Last revised :
July 26, 2006