The past few weeks have been busy with collecting materials for dye baths and then dyeing wool in beautiful, natural colors. We started last weekend and spent an entire day mordanting and dyeing in large pots. We gathered black walnut husks, onion skins, and poke berries.
The picture above is the result of our work.
The yellow hues are from onion skins. The greenish yarn is onion skin with a top dye of iron.
The pink skein is poke berry. The browns are black walnut. The lighter brown is yarn that was mordanted in 10% alum and 5% tartar. The rich, darker brown yarn was left overnight in the dye bath and was mordanted in 20% alum and 10% tartar. I cannot wait to knit with these fabulous yarns.
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