Sunday 1 November 2015

Natural Dyeing again

More playing in the kitchen, mordant free!


Some lovely pale indigo/grey tones with black beans - I used a lot more this time!



Avocado pits next. I played about with re-wetting, drying and folding the freshly dyed fabrics,  and got some nice textural marks.


I was really pleased with the colours this time, again, I used more stones, and waited overnight before using the dye bath. Apparently the avocado produces its own mordant?


This doily had been tea dyed lightly before, which wasn't doing anything for it, but overdyeing with the avocados produced a gorgeous tone. 

Now to use the fabric!


7 comments:

Rachel said...

Oooh, intriguing! *takes notes*

Anonymous said...

Love those bluey-grey indigos!

margaret said...

I am not a blue person but loving the hades you have here, doily looks lovely too

Starr White said...

Hi Jules! love to see you experimenting again and getting such lovely results. *hugs*

Andy Lloyd Williams said...

Beautiful shades, Jules. Fascinated by using avocado - do you split it or leave it whole?

Janice / Dancing with Sunflowers said...

Lovely results, Jules. I hope you're enjoying the black bean casserole.....

The avocado colour is interesting.

Look forward to seeing how you will use these.
x

Tammie Lee said...

such lovely soft colors! so appealing to me.