some colours i made in march and april

folded fabrics in a cardboard box

I’ve written about some of these already, but don’t they look lovely all folded together in a box?

This is all of the fabric I’ve dyed in March and April, not including that from the perpetual dyebath, which is still waiting to be washed.

From left to right:

A few olive greens and pale greens (they look kind of whitish here) from exhaust baths of pomegranate and turmeric with iron. Adding iron to the used dyebath initially shifted it to murky olive greens, and dyeing in the exhaust from this produced soft, pale springy greens.

Cutch (reddish) and cutch + iron (olive-brown, a bit purpley looking here).

A few pieces of cotton printed with rusty metal, using the vinegar-salt-oxalic acid method and left bundled in a basin for a few days.

Indigo, loads and loads of indigo. This is about half of the indigo fabric I’ve made recently; the rest of it is still waiting to be neutralised and washed.

Everything to the right of the indigo is pomegranate and turmeric: a straight 50/50 mix for the yellow, then a series of reheating the exhaust with iron to produce swampy dark olives, acidic lighter yellowy olives, and some lighter soft greens. There’s a mix of cottons and linens here, all reclaimed fabrics, destined either for clothes or quilts, and a stack of (new) cotton bandannas over at the right of the frame, which I’ll probably piece together into a dress.

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