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Here's a skirt I printed for a friend using rusty metal and tea. I'm quickly becoming obsessed with this method.

#NaturalDye #DyeingWithRust #OxideAndTannin

A long skirt with elastic waist and lace and tuck details at the hem. It's been printed with rusty metal rings to produce a mottled black and gray pattern. Printmaking studio detritus is visible in the background.

In other RUST news: I've been looking around the alleys for a free rusty chain for a while, for my projects. Doing a chore on the side of my house only accessed through the neighbour's, I just found a long rusty chain that has been here for decades on my own property! Just had to cut it off the neighbour's gate.

Now to figure out how to get it to meander charmingly across a shawl and stay in place inside a bundle. Going to clean this up and print it today!

#NaturalDye #OxideAndTannin

The hand of a white skinned adult, holding a jumbled length of rusty chain. In the background are a couple of mannequins and a window filled with plants.

Yesterday I bundled some things with rusty metal and boiled them in tea. Here's a t-shirt that previously had a too-pale ecoprint but now it looks pretty rad! And sock yarn that I left in the leftover tea overnight. I'm becoming obsessed with this process.

#NaturalDye #DyeingWithRust #OxideAndTannin

A t-shirt hanging on a drying rack in a printmaking studio. The shirt is a mottled, distressed looking mix of brown and black tones with rows of rusty spring prints. The yoke area is very tea coloured.

The hand of a white skinned adult with a forearm tattoo, holding a skein of orange-brown wool yarn.

🍍 International researchers have developed a way to dye clothing using discarded pineapple peel - an approach they say can help upcycle food waste and provide a more sustainable option.

✨Follow the link for more information on this story✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/pineapple-peels-can-be-used-to-dye-clothing

#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #naturaldye

I love what happens when you shove fabric all crumpled into the indigo vat and let it sit there for a while. I put this piece of cotton bedsheet in before the Arsenal-Leicester match started and took it out at half time 😍

#NaturalDye #indigo

Finally started the quilting on the coat I've been working on for a very long time now. This whole process has been so slow and I want to be wearing it already.

I'm using the Cris Wood Sews throw jacket pattern, with a lining and a very thin, very warm wool batting.

Linen for the exterior is thrifted, dyed by me with indigo, various tannins, and a little bit of rust. Quilted with cotton sashiko thread also dyed with indigo.

#quilting #HandmadeWardrobe #SustainableTextiles #NaturalDye #indigo

Linen fabric in various shades of indigo blue, sewn together and being quilted with densely spaced slightly wavy lines. A long needle is sticking into the fabric at the left.

Haciendo acopio para teñir pruebas... #naturaldye #botanicaldye

Foto a un tarro de cristal sujetado por mi mano lleno de pieles de cebolla.

The plant dyed yarn I made for this summer's seasonal work place, all done in a cast iron cauldron over an open fire in a 17th century inspired kitchen!
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1: Weld with Alum mordant
2: 2ond bath Weld with Alum mordant
3: 2ond bath Weld and 30 min Koschneill with Alum mordant
4: Weld and Madder with Alum Mordant
5: Madder with Alum mordant
6: Koschneill with Alum mordant
7: Woad and Madder with Alum mordant
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#plantdye #handmade #naturaldye #woolyarn #historicalcraft

Here's that dress I dyed last week. It was sprinkled with rusty rings and washers, bundled up and boiled in strong tea. The oxide and tannin react to produce the greys and blacks, and a few rings printed rust colour where the tea didn't penetrate, down in the ruffle which was rolled to the inside.

My partner says that the area around the diaphragm, where the symmetry is most obvious, is where everyone can gaze and see their favourite Pokémon.

#NaturalDye #HandmadeClothing #SlowFashion

Mirror selfie of a white skinned adult with long hair and tattoos wearing a knee length ruffled dress with a mottled gray and black pattern overtop of a longer black dress.

Teñir con cúrcuma ha salido: BIEN.
#naturaldye #botanicaldye

Foto a 3 trozos de tela de algodón teñidos: en el medio de cúrcuma, a la izquierda de hibisco y a la derecha de posos de café.

This week's dye test strips. Lines are painted with thickened mordant: alum acetate at bottom, ferrous acetate at top, and four blends of the two in between. The dyes we used, from left to right: onion skins, marigold flowers, avocado pits and skins, and ground eupatorium. We're slowly making a book of colour samples for teaching.

I've also got a dress in the leftover eupatorium dye, and later will process all the dye leftovers into lake pigments for making ink.

#NaturalDye #InkMaking #textile

Four colour test strips showing the different shades achieved using different amounts of alum and ferrous mordants with four different types of natural dye.

Our all-natural Logwood dye is restocked. I'm absolutely in love with this rich purple hue.

https://etsy.me/4k9MAxP

#NaturalDye #CrossStitch #HandDyedFabric #Artist #FiberArts #Purple #PurpleFabric #logwood #naturaldye #fiberarts

Just a few hours in, and I can already see some color! Walnuts produce a rich brown shade, with darkness depending on the dye-to-fabric ratio. This is when I get really excited!

#naturaldye #walnutdye #handdyed #behindthescenes #dye #walnuts #fabric

Here's a peek behind the scenes of my natural dye process. This giant pot is filled with walnuts. Now, we wait and see what develops. I'll keep you updated!

#naturaldye #walnuts #behindthescenes #dye #handdyed

A large pot filled to the top with walnuts while water is being added from a kitchen faucet.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO_XDlDk_xf/?igsh=MW5qNXZ3aTIzbHU5ag==

This booklet “1,540,000 nm of DSSC Off-grid Solar RAVE” it self is a sculpture of open hardware science. #dssc #dyesensitizedsolarcell #solarpunk #solarart #opensciencehardware #puteverythingonwiki #oshwa #bookaholic #naturaldye

Get it before it's gone! These are the last of the lighter Logwood fabrics I dyed last year. The new batch doesn't have the same light grey-ish purple feel to it, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to make more. Currently in Aida, Lugana, Belfast Linen.

http://bit.ly/4nmg25f

#handdyedfabric #crosstitchfabric #crossstitch #logwooddye #naturaldye #naturaldyefabric #aida #fabrics #fabric #lugana #belfastlinen

Aida and Opalescent Aida fabric dyed in a heavily marbled light grey-purple.

Lugana fabric dyed in a heavily marbled light grey-purple.

Linen fabric dyed in a heavily marbled light grey-purple.

@colinpurrington I didn't know there was a Gall Week! That's so cool. Turns out I took pictures of galls anyway but it hadn't occured to me to put them on inaturalist. Thanks!

This might be of interest to #ink / #InkMaking and #dye / #NaturalDye people-- lots of us are out looking for galls this time of year for tannin reasons.

From #LifecyclesProject on IG - they're using more of my photos for public promo 🙂:

We received so much positive feedback about our #FlowerPounding #NaturalDye workshop at Welland Orchard last weekend! 🌸✨ Scroll through to see what participants had to say.

Missed out (or were on our waitlist)? Good news! River is offering this workshop again with the City of Victoria on September 13th, 10am–12pm at Crystal Pool.

👉 Register through the link in our bio!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8yguxEbCO/

#VictoriaBC #YYJ #ViewRoyal #ArtsAndCrafts #NatureArt #BotanicalArt #HandsOnLearning #DIY #CommunityWorkshop #CommunityLearning #CreateArt

@PhotographyElf

@Axiom @fiberarts considering I'll soon be regularly getting these things falling on my head & arms for a few months, this is a nice looking reminder of a future use of said plant part.

Mostly though I'll likely be dying fibers for handmade paper not hand spun yarn.

#FiberArts #HandmadePaper
#NaturalDye