Yellow Boa Yarn

[Buddy Sanders]

David,

I've played with dying materials before.

The real problem with it is the learning curve. If you have lots of material to 'practice' on, and the time to figure out the formula to get the exact color you want, then eventually you'll be happy with the results. If you aren't too picky, and just want a 'sort of chartruese' you can probably figure it out with a couple of batches. 'Really Bright' will be difficult, I'd think, but not impossible. They do have UV dyes available that wil give you a glow...

The folks that do this professionally have better dyes, more exactly controlled conditions, and the experience to get it done correctly without initially wasting more than a few hundred kilos of material.

Up to you if you want to expend the effort. There are quite a few tutorials available online that will help you get started and help shorten the curve.

Just be prepared for some failures.

Good Luck!

Buddy

[FishnDave]

Good points, Buddy. I don't plan to dye anytime soon.

[quivira kid]

Mathcarver, let me know when it gets there!

[wayneb]

Boa yarn is made of synthetic fibers, I tried rit, Easter egg, and koolaid dyes on white boa. It wouldn't take those dyes even under heat.

I found yellow online a couple of years back, think it was on ebay. As I recall I watched for several months before finding it.

Wayneb

[James Smith]

Most synthetic fibers have the color "baked-in" so the do not respond to the traditional dying process. You can however, changed their colors with India Ink mixed with 70 Rubbing alcohol. Do a Google search on dying synthetic wigs and you’ll find some videos on the process. It should work the same way with the synthetic yarns. Keep in mind, you still can not dye a dark color to a lighter color; only lighter colors to darker. For example, you could change the color of white yarn to yellow this way.

Jim Smith

[Allan]

I just did a search for 'Bernat Boa Yarn' and found this. There are other sites selling this stuff too.

http://www.yarnsupply.com/bernat-boa...creative_id%5D

Allan

[FishnDave]

Found some yellow:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-5-X-50g-BALLS-YELLOW-TASMIN-EYELASH-FEATHER-KNITTING-YARNS-WOOL-TRIMS-CRAFTS-/281049177974?pt=UK_Crafts_Knitting_Crochet_EH&hash =item416fd61f76

I can't vouch for how it compares to what I've used in the past...it is a different brand. The color looks pretty close, based on the picture. Buy at your own risk.

[mathcarver]

FishnDav, I looked at the yarn on the website you furnished. It looks like it to me. I am hoping some others on FAOL will look at it and give their opinion. I did have a yarn company contact me today and say that Bernat no longer makes the yellow that we use. Thanks again for website. mathcarver

[hap]

A couple quick points about color because several posts here show a bit of a misunderstanding ... UV light is a wave length outside the visual range of most humans. The wave length is too long for us to see it. When a black light is turned on we see the tiny visual spectrum parts of its output, but not its primary output.

When that UV light hits a fluorescent material it refracts the light waves in a shorter wave length. Most materials reflect it as the same wave length or refract it to a longer wave length. Very, very few actually fluoresce with a shorter wave length...

UV light is a good thing for flies because it penetrates water farther than any color in the visible spectrum. Many fish can see UV which is outside our visible spectrum.

When colors fluoresce under UV (blacklight) they show what happens when a fly is reached only with UV... It refracts the mostly invisble UV as a shorter, and now visible wavelength.

So the light is carried to depth invisibly and then converted to a color fish can see at much greater depth...

Hope this helps...
art

[billhouk]

Is eyelash yarn the same thing? There seems to be a number of sources for it. Think we could get Rick to do a SBS on those flies?
Bill