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Sunday, 17 June 2012

Blueberry & Blackberry on Cloth

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Blueberries

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On cloth, fresh out of the Blackberry juice dye bath, mordanted with alum

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Squished

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Back into the blackberry juice

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2 days later

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This one was in Blueberry juice

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A few shades of blue and eau de nil

Natural dying is SO exciting!

7 comments:

  1. What lovely results! It's like magic isn't it? :)

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    1. Magic indeed, it's exhilirating when you pull the cloth out and it's pink, then you plunge it into water and it turns blue! The kids loved it too....

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  2. What fun!!! We did this last summer only using beets and tumeric . The colours were amazing. But the tumeric did stink up our home. But it was soooooo fun. Hugs to you.

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    1. I tried tumeric too, so much fun but yes, it stinks. I would love to try beets :)

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  3. hey, you're back! this dyeing is grand. & congrats on your scholarship, i'll look forward to hearing about your studies. & i understand what you said about blogging & voice & putting yourself out there. glad you're giving it a go again.

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    1. Thank you kindly :) It's hard putting yourself out there... don't you think?

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  4. That looks great! "squished" is a very good technical term ;-)

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