Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Thread Color-Bleed


While in the process of tatting 5 designs in my Spokane Beauty Apple Series, I came upon the issue of thread color-bleed in the beautiful red thread that I was using.  When tatting a solid red design, color bleed can not pose problems.  But when red thread is in close proximity to a white thread area, then there is real potential that when I block my finished piece, I would end up with a pink region (not white!).  The second photo shows just such designs in which red & white are in the same piece.

The first photo shows how much color-bleed I encountered.

For a very lengthy article about what 'color-bleed' is and how to control, and even remedy it, follow this link to my webpage:

www.TheShuttleSmith.com/shuttlesmithblog/thread-color-bleed/