Yellow is cool, I like yellow, but every plant I've tried makes yellow
I have too many yellow swatches
Can anyone suggests some plants that make any other color than yellow?
Just finished this after about 3 days of sewing in short bursts.
Fabric is cotton duck that I dyed in black tea. I need to learn to finish edges the right way instead of just stitching the crap out of them.
It is very sturdy and does hold my stuff though!
I put some strawberry tree fruit in my foraging bag, which I dyed with weld+iron. One of them smashed and everywhere the smashed fruit got the dye came out entirely.
Does anyone know how that happened?
Mordant from top to bottom: Aluminum, Iron, Copper
Dye from left to right: Turmeric powder, avocado skin and pit, garlic skin
all on 100% cotton
I used about 100% WOF purple pampas grass flower heads. Fabric is cotton, mordant with 5% WOF gall tannin for 30 mins then 5% WOF alum for 15 mins. Didn't time the dye bath probably 30 minutes.
I think I may have invented dark white. Sock on the right is undyed for comparison
I like green and I like foraging, but everything thats supposed to be green is just yellow and could be modified to a drab brownish green with iron.
Anybody know any plants I could forage in southern california that would produce a vibrant green? Not opposed to using multiple dyes, mordants, ph treatments but I want to forage for it and I want it to be lighter colored and very obviously green.