What is the difference between hand dyed and hand painted roving or yarn?
Hand painted roving is hand dyed, but hand-dyed is not necessarily hand painted. Let me explain more. There are a number of ways to hand dyed roving. You can dye it in a pot or a jar and get roving that is either solid colors or more likely, some variation on the same color….a bit lighter here, a bit darker there. But another way to hand dyed roving is to use multiple colors and to “paint” the dye on the roving. Usually that results in some of the different colors blending together. Sometimes you will also hear hand painted roving caller rainbow painted. I dye using three different methods. 1) I dye in a pot when I am looking for some, but not too much variation in the color of the roving that I am dyeing. I do this by putting the roving into a large pot with dye of a single color and then heating it appropriately to set the colors. An example is “Papa’s Roses” on my website. 2) If I want more tonal variation, then I put the roving in jars and add the dye, then heat the jars in a can
