EARTH
GUILD
33 Haywood Street
Asheville NC 28801
1-800-327-8448
828-255-7818
fax: 828-255-8593
inform@earthguild.com
catalog@earthguild.com
INSTRUCTIONS: Earth Guild Riffs
Earth Guild has produced basic instructions for the use of many of the materials that we sell. These are general instructions, not restricted to a particular project or pattern or design. We call these instructions "riffs". They are available here (follow the links below), or free with an order for materials; just ask. They may be reproduced as long as they are unaltered and our name stays on them.
Dyeing-Synthetic Dyes
- Lanaset - Basic & Complex
- Lanaset - Rainbow
- Jacquard Acid Dyes (from Jacquard Paints)
- Procion Immersion & Sodium Alginate
- Cushing Acid Dyes (for animal fibers: wool, silk)
- Cushing Direct Dyes (for plant fibers, including basket reed)
- Warp Painting
- Tie Dye
- Batik
- Dyeing Basket Reed: Solid, Graduated & Rainbow Shades
- Marbling
- Fabric Arts Liquid Dyes
Natural Dyeing
- Natural Dyeing
- Mordanting
- Pre-reduced Indigo (from Jacquard Paints)
- Indigo
- Cochineal
- StrippingWool with Thio-Urea
- Dyeing Basket Reed with Natural Dyes
Other
- Spinning with a Drop Spindle
- Care & Feeding of Hand Cards
- Polymer Clay
- Inkle Weaving
- Cardweaving
- Texsolv Heddles
- Hammock
- Candlemaking
- Making Candles with Soy Wax
- Making Rolled Candles from Wax Sheets
- Using Metallic Candle Colors
- Soap-casting (version 1)
- Soap-casting (version 2)
- Felted soap
If you have trouble printing one of these riffs, try going to your browser's page set-up and decreasing the margins: they may be set bigger than your printer can handle, which can cause them to cut off the text.