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Bonnie, helping the kids with the Easter eggs. A big part of her job was damage control, since I didn't want the table or the kids covered with egg dye, natural or not.
Taken July 2007 at Cow Bay at Cape Tribulation. I did not know which flower this was for a time but I think I have confirmed it. I propped a sprig in the windscreen wiper of the X-Trail and took the photos. The Images 2 - 5, are variations on a theme but I like each one in a different way and can't choose just one to place here, so I put the lot in. Hope you find one to like.
Melastoma malabathricum
Family: Melastomataceae
Common names: Malabar melastome, melastoma, Indian-rhododendron, known in Singapore as the "Straits Rhododendron"
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Taiwan, to Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific Islands; also Mauritius, Jamaica, and United States.
Native to tropical Asia, Australia and Polynesia.
Habitat: Moist tropics; a weed in abandoned clearings, waste ground, disturbed sites associated with plantation crops.
General information: Melastoma malabathricum is an evergreen shrub, up to 2 m tall. In Southeast Asia and elsewhere it is a widespread weed of industrial forest plantation crops (such as rubber and mahogany), orchards, and rice fields. In Hawaii it forms dense thickets in pastures and rangelands. Its minute seeds are dispersed by birds and water. The Americans consider this plant as a real pest.
This showy bush rapidly colonises wastelands as their seeds are dispersed by birds. As such, it is often considered a weed.
The beautiful flowers last only one day, opening after sunrise, closing the same day, with the petals falling off on the a few days later. The flower has two different kinds of stamens.
The seeds are tasteless and can be eaten, but stains the tongue black. In fact, the word melastoma is Greek for "black mouth". In Australia, also known as "blue tongue".
Uses: The young leaves are eaten raw or cooked and taste sour. The pulp around the seeds can also be eaten (Indonesia). The seeds are used to produce a black dye, the roots, a pink dye. In some places, the leaves are fed to silkworms.
Traditional medicinal uses: Leaves are used to treat diarrhoea and dysentery (Malaysia, Indonesia); wash for ulcers, to prevent scarring from smallpox; and to treat piles.
Role in the habitat: The fruits are the favourites of birds like the flowerpeckers and doves which also disperse the seeds. Squirrels and monkeys are also fond of the fruits. The plant is the host for caterpillars of butterflies such as the Common Sailor (Neptis hylas) and the Grey Count (Tanaecia lepidea). Being among the first to colonise wasteland, the plant helps prevent soil erosion and to allow regeneration of vegetation in such places.
Whiteley Creek Homestead Bed and Breakfast Brainerd, Minnesota Why not have fun with natural egg dyes instead of food coloring? It is so easy and the colors are so pretty. My bed and breakfast guests may be greeted with hard-boiled eggs on their breakfast menu... in colors of the rainbow!
At last summer's Felter's Fling, I took a class with Chad Alice Hagen. She is very funny & a great teacher. She keeps the students on task. She brings the most amazing tools for resist felting.
Most pieces of felt go into three dye baths. After each dye bath, the resists are removed & new ones added. You can try to plan the design, but it's not likely the plan will turn out "as planned" The fun of it is seeing what each piece becomes.
Other common names: Humped Fig
Ficus tinctoria G. Forst. :-)
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(Clicked at Laal Bagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore)
So, I, with the help of Ashley, successfully managed to dye Satch teal this morning.
We only did this one spot, just to see if he'd cooperate, and that he wasn't allergic, and how it would look and the like.
Do you like it?
Should we do the whole thing?
A hank of Araucania Nature Cotton tied a little too tight before dyeing. I contacted the company for a replacement.
The Frostlon from Goodwill came out a nice rose color (less bright pink than it looks in this picture) dyed with Kool-Aid. The orlon fiber didn't dye, so it stayed peach. The mohair dyed deep rose. So the result is a sort of multi-dimensional color. Very pretty. I have no idea what I will do with it. (Edited to add:) No longer true -- I'm knitting Knitty's Branching Out lace scarf with this. See later photos for it.
In the background is a hat I am knitting of leftover Kureyon from the armwarmers. It looks like I might run out. Uh-oh.
YORK, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: during the West Riding County FA Development West League match between i2i Albion and i2i County at Haxby Road on November 4th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
is poured on.
fabric is layered up underneath, in a big concertina, and the dye seeps through but doesn't bleed unless you want it to depending on how you applied the glue/paste previously.
I visited nijiyura chusen factory. It was amazing!
The dye didn't soak into the folds as much as I would have liked, so I decided to dye it a second time without the ties.
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