Dock Seeds Dye

Erin Silk samples in dye palette of variety of modifiers.  Shades can then be chosen for modifying silk piece and for mixing print pastes.  Dock creamy beige is quite warm with slight variations created by the modifiers.

Modifiers Test Palette

Samples are soaked 24hrs in modified dye. 2tsps of dye liquid with small amount of modifier powder. Slight variations are interesting.

1. Top right - Aluminium Sulphate
2. Centre right - Calcium Carbonate
3. Bottom right - Citric Acid
4. Bottom Left - Sodium Bicarbonate
5. Center left - Ferrous Sulphate (iron)

Russet Red Dock Seeds

Workshop table has red-brown docks seeds in bowl after boiling up, the dye liquid in a plastic pot and also some eucalyptus leaves soaking in water.