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| MADDER AND WOAD |
In June I cooked up some more madder roots (truly my favourite colour) for more brown for the map, and I dipped one of those artificial silk roses into the vat - and look!   Just right for the hat my daughter's wearing for a friend's wedding this weekend. And below is the results of mixing madder and onion skins for the map, but the interesting thing about this photograph is that I didn't take it.  My four year old grandson picked up my camera and took the photo himself. Bless.  IAnd these are the rather bizarre results we got from the woad leaves that we harvested last week from the Green Centre dye garden. We had loved the subtle results of the chopped woad leaves in vinegar solution so much that we thought we should try the same method but with sea water.  so no guarantee that they have ANY colour left.  IWe mashed them up as we had with the tap water and vinegar method, but used seawater this time..  And this is the result on Dianne's silk scarf. Not nearly as beautiful a turquoise green as it had been with the tap water and vinegar but a colour nonetheless. |
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