Eco Dyed Neutrals

Below are some photos of some neutrals that came out of my last batch of Eco dyeing. The rusty tin can caused the blacks and grays and in this case the leaves acted as more of a resist. I actually liked these more than the leaf prints I posted yesterday.

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Nature Dyed/Eco Dyed Silk Linen & Cotton with Iron, Leaves & Tannin

Here are the results of the bundles I posted the other day. They photographed slightly darker than they are in reality.  For more info on how it was done see my previous post.

Eco Dye, Rust Dye, & Nature Printing

I have been collecting dyeing materials on my walks in the woods. Lichen, oak, strawberry, maple and raspberry leaves. As well as oak galls and acorns

 Oak galls on the left (After the wasps have moved out) and acorns on the right

 Lichen, oak, strawberry, maple, fern and raspberry leaves. In the cups in back oak galls and acorns. Getting ready to roll the bundle around a rusty can I found in the woods

Wrapping another bundle around a rusty can

Doing a Shibori wrap with silk oak galls and acorns 

 The first wrapped can

Bundles all wrapped

  Bundles in the pot with oak galls and acorns. I covered with water and simmered on and of or 2 days

I will post some of the results over the next couple of days

These Aren't Your Grandpa's Neck Ties! Perfect For Father's Day

Hand painted silk ties just in time for Fathers Day! These definitely aren't your Granddad's neck ties ;-) I hope to get them listed in my Etsy Shop soon or you can leave a comment below if you are interested in one.

Antique Crosley Sink Hooked up in My Studio!!!

We bought an antique Crosley sink at ReNew for my studio but the facuet no longer worked and we couldn't get parts. So Don had to modify the Crosley faucet so that we could put a Delta facuet on it. Very creative that hubby of mine!

The faucet before adapting it

After Don adapted it to accept a Delta faucet

Ok, now that that's done we are off to the Putney Farmers Market to buy some fresh veggies!

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Playing with Setasilk dye paints

Don is still in the process of hooking up the plumbing in my new studio and the 220 outlet is not hooked up for my steamer sooo..... I am limited in what I can create. I pulled out some Setasilk paints I had and started to experiment with them. They are a lot of fun to play with, they are more opaque than French dyes so you can do some layering which is fun and they work with antidiffusants for watercolor style painting. They dry really fast so you have to work a lot quicker than I am used to and they are dull  and lack the luster that French dyes leave silk with. But they are vibrant and all and all they were fun to experiment with.

The rooster was for an old high school friend of mine that had knee surgery and was having a challenging time during her recovery. She is a lover of all things chicken so I painted the rooster to cheer her up.  When displayed on a white surface the colors are very vivid and strong but when displayed in the window on a bright sunny day (see rooster below) it looked a little washed out. The photo of the ladybug and dandelion in the window was taken on a rainy day so the colors were not washed out by the intense sunlight.

The silk hoops and the Setasilk paints were purchased from Dharma Trading