October 13th 2008

Using my dyeing-finally.

Hectic few days so have finally experimented with some of the dyed fabric etc.The onion skins were overdyed with Hollyhock petals, over soya milk mordant and the red onion was modified with iron which is from a wonderfully festering bottle in my boiler cupboard.I'm making small samples for a felt scarf and wrap course I'm teaching at Farncombe Estate, near Broadway, in a lovely residential centre where the views are fabulous and very inspiring for creative work.More of that later.

October 5th,2008

Dyeing with Golden rod

Currently have two slow cookers simmering away in the kitchen, one for Golden Rod and one for red onion.I'm hoping the layering of red onion on top of the Golden Rod will act as a mordant, because my current experiments are all without the use of chemical mordants, but just additives which are edible or harmless.The kitchen smells!Hopefully, glorious pictures tomorrow.In the meantime, a picture of a madder dyed silk scarf, done using the cold dyeing methos.