There hasn't been much sun here over the summer, so I have stopped the #solardyeing experiments. The last two skeins were dyed with St John's wort (green) and logwood in the forth draw. In used bleached wool yarn (Kampes 2-trådigt ullgarn) and mordanted with aluminum formate.
#naturaldyeing #DyeingYarn

Among a bunch of things I'm doing today, I'm using my steam juicer to distill some water.

I'm wanting to do a natural dye experiment to test the effect of on the hardness of our tap water on some colours. #naturaldyeing

My natural dyeing journey had taken me down a rabbit hole searching for Symplocos racemosa powder, as the plant is a natural bio-accumulator of aluminium.

Apparently the powder can be used as a mordant before natural dyeing, and can help give lasting colour... #naturaldyeing #plantdye

The natural dye plants that arrived in early December are growing really well.

I think the Lemon Sorrel is ready to harvest the first of it's leaves. I need to do some urgent research on whether I can dehydrate and store the leaves as a powder, or if I have to dye it with fresh leaves. #naturaldyeing #plantdye #sorrel

Did a little #naturaldyeing over the weekend. Cranberry (will be overdyed later, as it’s fugitive), red onion and cochineal, yellow onion and cochineal, yellow onion.

#Introduction time...

I'm an #introvert, a #knitter, a #spinner, and a #weaver, exploring #ZeroWasteClothing, #historybounding, and #NaturalDyeing. My other geekdoms are #anthropology, #reading, #ScienceFiction, #fantasy, #space, #FoodInSpace, #HumanHabitationOfSpace, #Autism, #transrights, and #DisabilityJustice.

I identify with Mr. Badger.

Environments/lived spaces and clothing the body, and their users' experiences of them and the history of these things are important to me. Also, #cats.

I recently learned that avocado pits supposedly make a self-mordanting dye. I think I should just need to bring this to a boil and then simmer for a while.

Note that you should make your dyes in a pot you never make food out of, even though this one has no chemicals. Do avocado pits have cyanide? In any case "natural" does not mean "safe".

I've just got one pit so this may come out a very "subtle" colour. The red was there before from previous projects.

#NaturalDyeing #crafts

I’ve got workarounds for small products, but finding somewhere to photograph my mannequins/dress forms wearing the clothes I make has been an ongoing saga. There are some tiny corners I can use but I can’t get a full height pic there.

And it’s not as if I live in the kind of spacious home that has lots of bare walls — ahahaha nope! too many bookcases — nor could I transport my mannequins back and forth easily on my bike!

#StudioLife #art #ProductPhotography #NaturalDyeing #NaturalDyes

#mushroom and #lichen dyes, beautiful results from a #mycopigments workshop at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, #washington.

mycopigments.com

Thanks to Rowena Dugdale for the introduction.

#craft
#wool
#plantcolours
#naturaldyeing

I do have some acorns in storage for this sort of thing. But there's a tree down the road with alder cones I could use as well. #CrossStitch #naturaldyeing

I think my biggest problem will be finding very dark brown fabric for the project. I really like the colour in the product photos. I think black would be too harsh. Maybe I could natural dye it. #CrossStitch #naturaldyeing