I had a very
enjoyable afternoon on Saturday at a Natural Dyeing Workshop. The photo is of everyone's
samples and a few larger projects with commercial dyes. For the natural dyeing
we used a selection leaves, bark, flowers and berries and all had a sample skein in each, then added mordants
which changed the colour with a second sample skein. I have wanted to do this
for ages but hadn't had the time or opportunity. I look forward to being able
to use natural dyeing for a project.
The photo is of my natural dyeing samples. The colours were obtained from (left to right) Crabapple bark, Walnut shells, Ivy berries
(immature) and leaves, undyed, Wattle (Cootamundra), Wattle + Copper, Yellow
Paper Daisies, Yellow Paper Daisies + Copper, Blackberries, Blackberries +
Copper, Dahlias, Dahlias + Copper, Buddleia + Iron (didn’t get my skein in
first batch). I'm thinking now that I might make something using all the samples, but I don't know what just yet.
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