Krumpy Dreads?

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

Hi There!

I´m courios to get done these krumpy Dreads done....Can´t get behind the mysterie,tried lots of stuff....don´t ask

Please tell me if you know!

*kizs*

from the rainy Vienna

Barbie

[Jane Doe]

krumpy dreads?
I'm not quite sure what you mean.

Are you talking about having texture in your dreads?

[LittlePinkFaery]

please explain! Do you mean knobbly and lumpy roving dreads?

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

I hope nobody minds when I post it like this:

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=779

The red/orange /yewllow set,it´s the third one-altought it´s pretty as hell it´s exactly the way I´d like to give my dreads....

[Phoenix]

That's a kind of wool called colinette point 5: http://www.colinette.co.uk/index.php?cP ... df1e5f178a

It already is in that shape, you can just cut it to the length you need, making sure you cut a thinner part to minimise unravelling.

[LittlePinkFaery]

well you are going to find that easy as pie...that is colinette.5 wool or slub yarn!

you don't have to do anything to it, just buy it and cut it!

http://www.colinette.com (I think this is the site)

EDIOT: phoenix you beat me to it!

[Jane Doe]

Ah, mystery solved

If you're really into handmade, and don't want to buy the colinette.5 yarn, you can have a go at spinning you're own.
It's spinning not felting that will give you that lovely texture.

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

Wow,Thats really a Surprise And offers huge possabilities!Thank you all....

I went to a medieval Market and saw some dreads which where quite similar,but different...they had all the same thickness, and they looked like a really soft cardiogram-line (hope somebody get´sthat:)-The woman selling them was the unfriendliest Tyrolian woman you can Imagine-shje told me "that I have to practise to do that"-I´m so ****shure there is a technique besides using colinette....

[Jane Doe]

Well, do you mean like these?
viewtopic.php?f=86&t=5742
If so, then read here
viewforum.php?f=65

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

Thanx;I know who to do roved dreads very well-but they get straight,when you rove them,even if I spinn them...

My gues was using merino woll,pre-rove it lightly and partly and throwing it into the washing machine or something like that...have been to busy to try that out by myslef till now,but this whole colinette thing brings it up again

[LittlePinkFaery]

if you want them uneven, try rolling them up and polling bits tighter as you felt to get thinner bits.

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

ok,I will search for them and post a Pic when I find them...!
Thank you all!

@jane doe:

The one link you posted,which is called "best of roving",in the fifth (the last) picture is a bright-blue dread hanging on the shoulder-thats the shape I´m looking for...Do you think the dreads have been braided to get this effect??

[shrijani]

Do you mean like this?



I make them similar. First I felt them and blunt the ends. Then I grap the whole dread together and start felting it into a little ball in my hands.. Then I let them dry on a towel (if you dry them by hanging them they will get straight again)

I'm curious about felting them in the washing machine.. I think it might work. I'm gonna try it out tomorrow!

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

I love the tribal style,these are great tips!

[Stilldawn]

warning....I threw a (wool) dread in the washing machine on cold cycle and it shrank..ALOT!!! It did not get curly either. Course it was well felted when I did this.

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

washing machine works,but as you said it shrinks....

the wool shouldn´t be felted, but prepared to felt,I usually put them in the hot water once to pre-define the way I want them to look....
these are done with the machine,krumpy but not that krumpy...



The where about 1,5 m when i put them in and out came about 70,80 cm....
The curled ones where predone....

[Stilldawn]

so you just put them in the washer all together? in a pillow case? wouldnt they felt together into a big mass of wool? how do you avoid that?

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

step by step:

section the wool

put it into hot water and rinse it ,so the section gets a kind of a shape,maybe do that twice
(you also can just slightly rub over the whole lenght to get it pre-done)

put them into the machine (I used some towels-but not the ones with the heavy, bulky strings,the ones with really low floor,If you know what I mean-to get them away from each other,they should not get intouch )

About 30 Degrees,spin it hard.

Well it works,but I don´t like what comes out,it´s always a question of luck if it comes out that way you want it-impossible to do other stuff than one-colored dreads or candy cane.

I´ve noticed that Merino Wool behaves different from Island wool,and so do different colors-its much more bitching around and there where no constant results at my test,with wich you could figure out a pattern...
You can even never be shure that the wool section stays away from the other sections,If you have bad luck,the sections will stuck together-pulling them helps getting them of each other,but as said,I don´t really like the result.

Machine washed Wool Dreads can not be "curled" or "straightend" and they have some kind of "wormy" look at the ends....Question of taste

[Stilldawn]

Yeah I think balling it up or braiding them as they dry is much easier from the sounds of it, course it is also a different end result. more curly than crimpy. Thank you very much for the walk through.

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

Yea,I agree...someone advised me (don´t hit me,I´ve forgotten who ist was,but it was a very sweet and nice person ^^) to twist the finished dreads wich each other and let the dry that way-I tried out just wrapping one dread thight around the fingers (like around a curler),pull it off the finger and let it dry....makes more curly than crumpy wooldreads, but was a wonderful effect....will post pictures when I have some

[VixenSingsBlack]

To get lumpy/krumpy/natural/kinky/wormy/gnarled wool dreads I do the following:

1) Cut a piece of roving twice as long as the intended DE.
2) Plunk the roving into the hot/soapy water. Let sit a moment.
3) Palm roll in the water into a basic dread shape.
4) Remove the whole dread from the water and squeeze into ball shape.
5) Begin rolling ball between hands, pressing down very hard.
6) Plunk back in water, fix any "imperfection" or "dislikes"
Then repeat the steps however you want, more ball rolling for intense kinks or more regular palm rolling for fewer kinks.

The wool shrinks significantly due to this process.

Result:



(I also dyed both these colors myself--check that out over here: viewtopic.php?f=65&t=2517)

I would do a full on picture tut of this, but I have no idea how to take pictures of my process while my hands are soaking wet

[Stilldawn]

Yeah I was wanting to do a tut. myself but couldnt figure out how to grow a third arm.

[Ms.FräuleinWunder]

Yeah I was wanting to do a tut. myself but couldnt figure out how to grow a third arm.

Tell me when you got the clue to this

[AmandaLegend]

These are so awesome! I cannot decide if they look more like those black snake fireworks that expand on the ground when you light them on fire or that foamy insullation stuff haha. I am going to try this for my halloween dreads.

Result:



(I also dyed both these colors myself--check that out over here: viewtopic.php?f=65&t=2517)

I would do a full on picture tut of this, but I have no idea how to take pictures of my process while my hands are soaking wet [/quote]

[VixenSingsBlack]

G'luck Amanda! If you have any problems, just swing me a PM and maybe I can help you out.