Geranium viscosissimum
Onto cotton tee shirts with Cotinus, Eucalyptus, and Cochineal
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Sticky Lavender Geranium a fine plant for natural prints
As I get further into this adventure of searching out plants that will make a lovely natural dye or print, I find that sometimes the best and most interesting are just under my feet. I have had this plant in my garden for many years, enjoying it sometimes and, at times, disparing of it's rather messy look after blooming. I am looking now for my nature print project for interesting leaves, and after a search on the internet and in a wildflower book, I found the identity of the mystery plant, commonly called Sticky Lavender Geranium. This self-sowing geranium has large palmate leaves, very different from other geraniums. I was so surprised and pleased from my first prints, which are on cotton tee shirts...big, bold leafy prints. I have some bundled on a silk chiffon scarf. I will post the results when it has cured for a bit.
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Lovely tee-shirt! Nice prints from the sticky geranium!
ReplyDeleteRegular geranium leaves leave nice bold prints too, you should try them sometime!
Thank you, trembling; I have tried the regular ones (at least until the deer came thru and ate most of them), so I was delighted when I checked this naturalized plant out in my wildflower book and found that it was a geranium. The round ones leave great prints when dipped in iron water too.
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