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Etamine de laine

Etamine is "the pongee among wool fabrics" and it is cuddly soft. It can be dyed excellently with steam fixable silk colours - these colours shine and glow in this fine fabric! Cloth printings with thickened silk colour, and Shibori-dyeings also gorgeously come into their own - of course this also goes for coloured Etamine.

Fabulous scarves, stoles and shawls for the wintertime can be created from this fine fabric! The Etamine does not have to be rolled for this, since the threads do not come undone. Edges can be cut cleanly, or torn dead straight. By loosening threads at the cut selvedges decorative fringes can be produced.
Wool-etamine is also exceptional as a warm lining for light wool jackets, silk jackets and silk scarves, giving these a cuddly warmth, especially suited for wintertime.

For this material superwash finish was deliberately dispensed with. Therefore even dyed wool-etamine can be felted into a light, smooth wool fabric at 50-60°C in the washing machine, making it similar to fine wool-mousseline, which feels wonderfully soft. And in combination with versatile FLYFEL®-products you will be able to create wonderful nuno-felt creations!

Design example.
A wonderful example of the various possibilities of manipulating smooth Etamine de laine with tying and felting processes.

Tying technique/Shibori, dip dyeing in a pot, and felting in a washing machine - all in one design example.

First an oblong piece of white wool etamine was shuffled together lengthwise, partially tied very tightly, and dyed by simmering in a pot with blue silk colours.
Afterwards the small parcel was felted strongly in a washing machine. The areas that were tied together remain (almost) entirely unfelted and undyed.
A nice contrast and three-dimensional effect which is also applicable to larger projects. The tied package is relatively small. This also reduces the risk of those areas felting together which are not intended to do so.

Design example.
On the right side natural dyeing with Juglans regia, the endemic walnut. Cold contact dyeing with crushed, fresh green hulls.
The left side was dip-dyed in steam fixable silk colour.

Here, again the dip dyed piece from the previous picture.
To create such a gentle colour gradient, the moist fabric is dipped into a pot with water and, in the beginning, only very little steam fixable silk colour. Then the fabric is slowly pulled back out, while simultaneously more colour is added.