How can I recreate this multi-layered, sun faded effect?
I'm very new to dyeing.
I would like to recreate this effect by Story mfg. link . I have access to a dyeing pot, Rit dyes, time, and a bunch of scrap cotton-linen. But, I don't know how to "layer", and I don't know how they'll react to sun bleaching. (Would misting bleach solution onto the crumpled/lightly-folded fabric work here?). I imagine this will take a ton of trial and error until I get something I'm happy with. Is this only achievable using Madder+Indigo?
Blurb from their store page:
> This dye is a combination of natural indigo and madder - dyed in layers. Natural dyeing isn’t at all like mixing paints - you dont mix Indigo and Madder into purple and then dye with that - that would never work. It's more like creating different colours by shining light through different coloured lenses to create the one you want - we dye a layer of madder, then overdye with a layer (or sometimes layers) of natural indigo and we get this ‘blurple’ effect.
> What makes it particularly special is that the two dyes react differently to sunlight. Madder fades taking its red tones down to sherbert-y pinks relatively fast, while the natural indigo strain we use very slowly dulls so you end up with a fabric that goes from a ‘blurple’ to an almost purpley-elephant-grey-blue. At every stage it's ‘the best colour I’ve ever seen’ so it’s understandably everyone’s favourite dye that we do. It is, of course, also the most expensive and hardest to make - drawing upon every drip of expertise from the dyers to get right. We’re all really proud.