Spinning Corn Silk

Deyaneria on March 23rd, 2011

Corn Fiber is an interesting fiber. I thought” OK, it’s a vegetable fiber. I have direct dyes it will dye beautifully. ” Well here is what happened when I tried. As you can see the fiber took no color at all there are a few silk pieces that clung to it as it was in the […]

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Deyaneria on March 21st, 2011

Corn is a interesting plant with many uses. Corn fiber or Corn silk as it is sometimes called is actually the starch of the plant and not the silk we remove for eating. Corn fiber is produced by breaking down the starches into sugars. The carbon and other elements in these natural sugars are then used to […]

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