Dock seeds dyed habotai and Erin silk
Dock seed dyed Erin silk and Habotai silk
Russet Red Dock Seeds
Erin Silk samples in dye palette of variety of modifiers. Shades can then be chosen for modifying silk piece and for mixing print pastes. Erin silk, which looks a bit like linen, takes on a stronger or darker colour than the Habotai silk. The dock creamy beige is quite warm with slight variations created by the modifiers.
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.
Modifiers Test Palette
Samples are soaked 24hrs in modified dye. 2tsps of dye liquid + 2grms modifier powder. Slight variations are interesting. More larger samples coming....
- Top right - Aluminium Sulphate
- Centre right - Calcium Carbonate
- Bottom right - Citric Acid
- Bottom left - Sodium Bicarbonate
- 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.
