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Dye Recipe Cards

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Bundles of A4 recipe cards for one yarn shade with hanks of yarn, the original colour and the end result of each dye batch. The cards contained key information about yarn shade and quality of wool, dye date, dye lot, quantity and dyers comments. Every time a new lot was dyed a new column was filled in.

Dimensions:

Length: 295mm
Width: 210mm
Height: 5mm
Materials: Card, Yarn Samples

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