Straw Into Gold Menu Page

Sharing Information about fibers, yarns, quilting, dye techniques, links and more
previously located: Straw Into Gold - Berkeley, CA 94702
Our address:
160 23rd St., Richmond, Calif. 94804
Note: This is not a retail shop. We are now wholesale only.

If you wish to buy our yarns and supplies,
check the SHOP LIST link at the top of this page.

A list of all our yarns is here.

Do you have a Knitting Shop ? Or are you a Production Knitter?
For information on wholesale purchase of yarns and knitting needles -
see the Crystal Palace Yarns section of this web site.

(note: Straw Into Gold no longer sells dyes)

• Dyeing wool / protein fibers with Acid Levelling Dyes (Kiton type)
• Multi-color techniques for dyeing with Acid Dyes, making "painted" yarns
• Painting, spraying and printing with Procion dyes on cotton, rayon, silk, etc.
• History of Dyes from 2600 BC to 20th C. , from a talk given by Susan Druding at Convergence 1982
• Simplified Procion Dyeing Instructions, for the occasional dyer
• TAN Reprint: History and Chemistry of Fiber Reactive Dyes, emphasis on Cibacron F (aka Sabracron F), article from 1982
  
  2 decades HISTORY of STRAW INTO GOLD in photos
  Although we first opened in 1971 in Rockridge area of Oakland, few photos of that era exists - but in Berkeley from 1981 to Richmond in 2001:
  STRAW INTO GOLD - CRYSTAL PALACE YARNS locations from 1981 to 2007 and beyond here

• See Dec. 2000 photos of Straw Into Gold's old Berkeley location - HERE 

• See first location move to Richmond in 2001 - HERE

• See final move to 160 23rd Street - HERE

Susan's Quilting Articles - on Equilters.com