Cotton Tales

Bundled cotton culottes with red and yellow onions skins, E. cinerea, and hibiscus; boiled in iron pot; don’t know how long to leave it..it’s very dark blue right now, as it dried, it lost much of it's color; I think subtle and earthy are the words for the tones now.

Cotton t-shirts and culottes, after dyeing

Cotton culottes...soaked in alum, tannin, alum and then soy.  I guess I wanted to take no chances, although it's all experiment and chance.

Bundled with eucalyptus and boiled in iron pot

T-shirt soaked in soy, bundled with eucalyptus and steamed

T-Shirt, soy mordanted and cured, bundled with eucalyptus, steamed and then lower half boiled in iron pot

This weeks cotton t-shirts, bundled, steamed, boiled half-way in iron pot, waiting to see when they dry out.  Some of the eucalyptus leaves are fresh and some dry.  Also some hibsicus and onion skins.  

Many of the euca leaves were painted with egg yolk and left to dry before bundling, painted with fresh egg yolk just before bundling.  So many options to experiment with

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Long maxi dress...eucalyptus on cotton with some iron mordant

2 soy mordanted, iron dipped, cotton tee shirts with eucalyptus, simmered in cochineal dye bat

 Upcycled girls camisole