Lookee what I did!

[gwyndlyn]

Much earlier this year, I asked norfacoflandra to please not cut down the pokeweeds under our spruce trees, because I'd like to try dyeing with the berries this fall.

Yesterday, he tells me I should get those berries picked before the birds get them all :) I get home from the Fiber Guild meeting to find a small bag of poke berries that J and R have picked for me

Comments

[dreamingbyday79]

Awesome. That did look like a lot of fun!
And, yeah, the still-stark white of the linen and cotton is CRAZY!
:-)

[spoon_o_doom]

The silk sure came out pretty!

[kc_42]

The linen and cotton might have taken some color if you mordanted them first.

[gwyndlyn]

True - this was a limited sample. I soaked all of the fiber in vinegar & water, nothing involved at all. I was most interested in the results on wool, anyway.

I looked at the wool this morning, after it dried, and it's definitely magenta - like printer-ink magenta!

[raventhourne]

The linen even with mordant, probably wouldn't have taken much of the dye. Linen just doesn't like to be colors unless they are in the blue/green spectrum with natural dyes.

The cotton would have with an alum mordant I think...

[eithni]

Oooh! So cool!

[metyldapryde]

Nifty!

One of these years I'll work up the nerve to try my hand at this. I need to clean house first, though.

Dang those turned out pretty, though.