Dying your own wool

 

Commercial/hand-spun yarn.

The yarn above is 2plied yarn, which has 1 core of romney sheeps fleece and 1 core of commercially spun wool/mohair yarn. Sometimes I mix my hand-spun stuff with some other commercial bought wool. I'm not too much of a puritan when it comes to mixing and matching, but I do like to stick to the natural  stuff  for spinning...silk, wool, alpaca, etc.

Commercial chemical dyes are another part of being creative with what you spin, and may not be every ones cup of tea, but they sure do give strong bright results. If you get the dying process right you should be left with absolutely NO dye residue left in the water.  

ECO-DYING is the way to go, with a bit of forward planning, and some patience you can open up a whole new world to creating more subtle colours.