Recipe Room
Every year, my yarn supplier shares a new shade card. This is their equivalent of a lookbook, detailing the available colours for that year. It's extensive: each season around 50-70 colours are added. These colours are designed and tested in the Recipe Room.
Crafting the perfect shade.
Before dyeing can begin, every shade is developed and tested in what’s known as the Recipe Room. These small bags of fibre are used to mix and match colour formulas.
This is where colour accuracy, consistency and vibrancy are fine-tuned before anything reaches the dye house.
Precision in every hue.
This blue piece of fluff may look like leftover debris, but I was shown how it can be used to mix colours and ascertain specific recipes.
Recipes are calculated in percentages. The knitted swatch you see is a shade called Lapis. I was shown how using percentages of white, blue and black, you can achieve this glorious shade.
