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Post by teriann on Sept 30, 2012 1:14:42 GMT
Mohair dyed with tree barks Silk and Mohair dyed with summac leaves and iron and a little wool dyed with tree bark and iron I cut up a thrift store silk shirt to experiment on.      |
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Post by jufergu on Sept 30, 2012 1:47:55 GMT
Oh wow, those are beautiful.
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Post by Karen on Sept 30, 2012 1:52:00 GMT
They look amazing Teriann  |
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Post by MTRuth on Sept 30, 2012 3:11:19 GMT
Gorgeous - what will you do with the silk shirt experiments? They would make lovely backgrounds for stitching.
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Post by teriann on Sept 30, 2012 22:09:44 GMT
Thanks everyone.
Ruth,
I used to make landscape art quilts... before I started felting.
I'm looking for a way to combine the two and also make use of my husky star needle felting/embellishing machine.
My stash of quilting fabric isn't quite right for the idea.
So I'm experimenting to see if I can "design" colors, patterns and textures that will coordinate better with my plant dyed wool.
I hope to learn some of the stitching that you've shared and also try some shibori dying techniques.
It's going to take a while though. For now I'm taking advantage of the nice weather to gather up plants and do some dying outdoors.
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Post by Tess on Sept 30, 2012 22:33:31 GMT
As we have renovated the hay loft into a studio for me any old bits of hinges, rusty nails bits of old ploughs anything metal I've come across up there I have saved for when I can get around to doing some dying. I love the delicate shades of natural dying. Does anyone follow India Flint?.
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Post by Shepherdess on Oct 1, 2012 1:05:09 GMT
You got some very nice paterns on your fabric. Have you every heard of dyeing using the pot as mordant? I think you might like it, copper pot, aluminum pot, iron pot.
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Post by teriann on Oct 1, 2012 16:38:36 GMT
Ann,
I found some old, rusty cast iron pots and pans at a garage sale.
My plan was to use them for campfire cooking. But I changed my mind since I don't know where they've been. But, in my world all good things lead to felting...
I'm going to use them to make iron modifier.
I'll end up with a jug of inky black liquid... and clean pans!
I've also been saving my Grandmas old aluminum cookware, including a coffee pot. I thought I might be able to boil vinegar and water to create a "mordant".
I don't have a way to test it though. To know if there is enough aluminum released to mordant the fiber?
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Post by MTRuth on Oct 1, 2012 16:55:24 GMT
Tess - I follow India Flint's blog. I also have her first book.
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Post by teriann on Oct 2, 2012 0:40:27 GMT
Ruth and Tess, India Flint sure does some awesome designs. I don't quite understand how it works though. What is used as a "mordant" to "fix" the plant colors. Alum should work with silk but what about cotton? I've read that alum/tannin/alum works with cotton. Summac leaves are a good source for tannin and on their own add just a little tan color. But used on alum mordanted cotton summac adds a lot of yellow. I don't know if this fades over time...The photo below is the alum/tannin/alum. The darker yellow fabric is unbleached muslin, the lighter yellow is bleached muslin. This wasn't the background I was hoping for.  I'm going to try the leaves once they turn red and the chlorophyll is gone. Maybe it will be less yellow. I also collected oak galls to see what I get with them. They are supposed to add a lot of tannin without adding a lot of color. There must be some reason people took the time to collect these things.  |
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Post by Shepherdess on Oct 2, 2012 12:58:26 GMT
I believe if you do they dying in the pot you get enough released. Iron "saddens" most dye even just a chip in your enamel pot will do it. google using a pot as mordant. I know someone that did her final papers for her master spinners doing this. of course the work is in the Ontario spinners in depth study library but that isn't really very accessible.
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