Comsumption of Dyeing

[affreca]

Slightly obsessed right now. Beet and blackberry samples are finished drying and have been stapled to paper (to get them all sorted - each sheet has all the mordant options for a dye for two fabric types).

The beet samples are all yellow. Mordants didn't seem to change the color much at all. Yellow is kind of greenish, especially compared to the tumeric samples.

Quite a lot of variety in colors in the blackberry samples. The wools are all browns. However, the linens are pretty, with iron giving a green color, and tin a purple color. The cotton with iron is army green.

In the pot right now is the red cabbage samples. They've been boiled for two hours, now cooling down (will fish out tomorrow when there is sunlight to dry them). Not much color at all. Definitely not the beautiful blue I remember from dyeing eggs.

Comments

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

It is so interesting to read the different results - a lot of them are not as I would have expected. Pretty cool!

[affreca.livejournal.com]

It's fun because it's science. Make a hypothesis, run experiments and see what results. When I have more done I'll take pictures of my results cards.