Sunday, May 2, 2010

plant dyeing silks for the kindergarten rainbow bridge

Plant dyeing silks has to be one of the most enjoyable arts I know of.

Here is my weekend experiments.

Red onion skin for green
tumeric for yellow
cochineal for orange and tumeric
indigo for blue
indigo and cochineal for purple

4 comments:

  1. wow, i had the same idea in my last post. do you add a fixant?

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  2. Stunning! You did an amazing job. I've never gotten green from red onion skins before. How wonderful! You would love coming to the dye & fiber retreat that we attend each year with www.griffindyeworks.com. :)

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  3. The silks are lovely! I love how soft the colors are. Great job!

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  4. These are so lovely. Isn't it wonderful what we can get from nature.

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