Tumeric and plum skin solar dye pots after soy wax resist
Tumeric is one of my favorite dyes. I did my first solar dye jars and before I entered the fabrics I did some soy wax resist making circles with lids of all sizes. The fabric is hemp silk blend. The tumeric was a dull orange until I used the iron to get out the wax, then it quickly brightened to what you see now. The plum skins were plums fallen from my tree or bird raided pieces. The colors here are a dull grey green with bright pink circles emerging with the heat of the iron. I lost some of the green with the ironing. I used Washing soda in the plum skin jar as well as alum. The washing soda made the color a lot deeper. The two center squares of orange Tumeric are PFD cotton.
Tumeric and plum skin solar dye pots after soy wax resist
Tumeric is one of my favorite dyes. I did my first solar dye jars and before I entered the fabrics I did some soy wax resist making circles with lids of all sizes. The fabric is hemp silk blend. The tumeric was a dull orange until I used the iron to get out the wax, then it quickly brightened to what you see now. The plum skins were plums fallen from my tree or bird raided pieces. The colors here are a dull grey green with bright pink circles emerging with the heat of the iron. I lost some of the green with the ironing. I used Washing soda in the plum skin jar as well as alum. The washing soda made the color a lot deeper. The two center squares of orange Tumeric are PFD cotton.