Wild Cherry Bark Dye
Fabric samples going into Wild Cherry Bark solar dye bath. I’m testing raw silk, cotton canvas and hemp canvas. I’m not sure how long these will hav...
Category: Natural Dyeing
Walnut Find
Look what I found! I think these are walnuts. The trees are about half a mile from my house, and appear to be part of an abandonned orchard. They border the U.C...
Ancient Relics
I’ve been working on some leaf printed and upcycled pillows, and I love the way these two pieces turned out looking like old and mysterious ancient relics...
Dyeing with Eucalyptus and Ironwood
I’m dyeing some cotton yarns with local eucalyptus bark and fallen leaves from Catalina Fernleaf Ironwood trees. The eucalyptus bark is abundant, but I...
Natural Dyeing
I’ve felt inspired to do some natural dyeing and weaving lately. It’s good to mix things up. It keeps me interested and excited about my work. I h...
New Work
These are two pieces of linen I recently dyed and painted. The first was printed using brown onion skins and then painted with black pigment in a soy milk binde...
Mordanting
Here’s the boring part — mordanting the linen and waiting for it to dry. I’m mordanting in alternating dips of soy milk and baking soda. The s...
Untied Caps
I untied the eucalyptus seed pod caps and the rusty bottle caps today, and the results are below: I also did another steamed piece yesterday, and unwrapped it t...
Steamed Caps
Here are the eucalyptus seed caps and the metal bottle caps after being steamed and sitting for a day. Not quite ready to be untied and opened yet. The edges of...
Tied Caps
This is eucalyptus seed caps tied up in cotton and ready for steaming. Then they have to sit for a while before I can untie the bundle and see what it looks lik...