The wool has been sitting in the colouring broth the whole day. I finally took it out, rinsed it and hung it out to dry. I am pretty pleased with the colour. Most probably it will lighten a bit when dry, but it is an even and luscius yellow.

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I am sieving the onion skins into an old laundry net, put the broth back in the pot and in goes the wool. To keep the wool covered I put the laundry net with the skins in top. Now it has to heat up slowly to about 70 degree Celsius and kept there for about an hour or two.

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Both onion skin broth and mordanting bath with the wool have cooled down to room temperature. I will let the wool soak overnight in the mordanting solution as well as the onion skins in their broth. It has a very intense brownish colour. Tomorrow I will sieve the broth and put the wool in. I am very excited about the colour result.
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Simmering, simmering onion skin soup🍲.
Give me all your sweet, sweet pigments.

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While the wool is in its mordanting bath at about 70 degree Celsius, the onion skins are cooking nicely.

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Wohoo, it's dye day. Normally I buy my wool for weaving, but I got a good amount of onion skins from my local organic grocery store, which are great for dying (I hope). First I prepare the onion skins for extracting the pigments and the wool for mordanting with potash alum.
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@MegLG
Wow, this ist beautyful.

@Zeitenhandel Absolut, ich liebe Museen. Jedes Exponat erzählt eine eigene Geschichte, man muss nur ganz genau hinsehen.

Lots of little dragon heads: This tablet woven trim is inspired by a 10th century textile fragment from Dublin. It is not a faithful reconstruction of the original. While the original is woven in brocade technique, this trim has been woven with 2 threads per tablet. It resembles the motive pretty well, though: double dragon heads, hence called Dublin Dragons.
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@CaramelizedShallots Thank you. You are, too.

This tablet-woven trim is a reconstruction of a sleeve trim that was attached to the burial robe of Abbess Berthild of Chelles, who died at 705 AD. Berthild was the first abbess of Chelles Abbey and a contemporary of the Frankish Merovingian queen Bathilde, who was buried in the same abbey in 680.
It is woven with fine plant-dyed wool attempting to imitate the colouring of the original border.

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I am currently weaving a reconstruction of the Hallstatt 126520 band (in different colours though), which was found in 2019 during excavations in the Hallstatt salt mine and probably dates back to the Early Iron Age/Celtic period. The band shows several seemingly random sequences of patterns, which makes it unique for this period, as the other known woven bands show a regular repeat of the same pattern.

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A colourful interpretation of the Hallstatt textile 152. The original textile fragment used to be a trim, made of fine woollen threads. It was found in the salt mines of Hallstatt and dates back to the pre-Ronan Iron Age, about 500 BCE.
This one I made out of plant dyed, thick woollen threads to use it as a trim for a thick woollen winter peplos.
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