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| Rust, red onion, and windfall lichen on linen |
The picture above shows samples my more successful dyeing attempts, including vinegar-induced rust on Don's grody road-find ...
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| Grody road-find to the left is 3" in diameter |
Love Potion #9 alum and red onion "preserves" ...
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| I wanted to see if fresh cut onion works as well as onion skins. Turns out it does as long as the onion is firmly in contact with the cloth |
and India Flint inspired windfall lichen bundled in linen and poached for an hour in a hotpot full of tap water (after which it was left to cool overnight) ...
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| Note: I gathered well over two quarts of windfall lichen on our property in less than one hour The canning jar to the left has water added to it, the one to the right has clear household ammonia |
The acacia cassia pod dyeing was far less successful, as the three end products shown below were absolutely not worth the gag-inducing stench that accompanied opening up the canning jars ...
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| Original sheeting color (top) Copper wire wrapped (1), Steel wire wrapped (2), and alum mordanted (3) |
So, the grody thing has already been restaged with some indigo cotton and a rusty metal cap (found yesterday in the side yard, it nests into the grody thing like they were made for each other). Next time I won't get soooo excited about the results that I forget to put gloves on before picking up the cloth (my black-edged fingernails will be around to remind me for a while, I'm afraid).
I also went ahead and cut my 60-count linen weaving experiments off their shadowbox frame, since I now have a bead loom that is much easier to warp ...
and because one of the bits is needed for another dyeing project. More on that later ...
