Dying In The Garage

Dyeing Again

Here is another piece of a thrift store silk shirt,

dyed with dye made from a Carolina Jasmine

Vine. I tied it up with peanut shells because that is what I had on my table!

More Experiments

I am cooking leaves today. These Spanish oak leaves are cooking in a crock pot in the Frio River water. On the stove, I am cooking Chinese Pistache leaves and berries in a tin can of tap water, in a water bath. What do you think will happen?

The Frio River

I spent the weekend at the beautiful Frio River. The water is crystal clear, so I collected some to use in making natural dyes. I read in India Flint's book that water can make a difference.

Dyed Fabric

Here are the silk pieces from the cold-bundling dye project. The green printed silk (from a thrift store shirt) is patterned with Black Rice. The red piece, is dried Hibiscus flowers on yellow dyed silk. It was hard to wait a week to untie them! I really thought I would wait longer as suggested by India Flint, but I couldn't stand it and opened them with the idea that it was all an experiment anyway. Right away, I tied up a new bundle of beige silk (another thrift store shirt) with spoonfuls of rice rubberbanded into pods. It wasn't in the jar five minutes when the pods turned purple. I will wait at least a week though to see what happens. I also tied up some fallen Oak Leaves.
Stay tuned!