Oh, this blogging business is complicated. Once you decide to start and think that you’re just going to have to be disciplined and creative about generating posts, you discover that there are endless things to learn about search engine placement and that all the research you did when you designed your website YEARS ago is now virtually obsolete… There’s no end to the learning process! And as you try to tackle it all, you realize it’s been over a week since you posted and that you never followed up on that dye experiment…
So here goes:
I got some responses from Dharma Trading and Jacquard products and it seems the warp or weft threads of my fabric may be shrinking, causing the surface puckering. They suggest that I try stretching the fabric and painting it with the dye, then steam fixing it. The problem (besides the fact that it’s a more complicated process and I’ll have to rig up a steamer) is that the same puckering may occur during steaming. We’ll see.
Actually, on closer examination, it seems to me that the warp threads are actually breaking down or unraveling somehow. They’re springy in my dyed pieces, whereas they were crisp and snappy in the undyed fabric. The dyed cloth is almost stretchy in the warp direction. I’m still working on this and trying to understand, so any input would be appreciated!
Okay, back to reading about keywords and metatags and thinking about redesigning my website now.
Bye all.
