Natural Dye Experiments 2011

These are some of my experiments with natural dye NZ spring 2011.

I used:

extracts of - indigo, cochineal, logwood.

From my garden  - woad, weld, coreopsis, gum. I also used onion and a mix of onion and tumeric.

The first time I used the fresh woad I did a natural fermentation with yeast and although it was a nice blue when it first came out of the vat it quicky changed to a very light mauve/pink/blue colour.  The second time I used the chemical with good results.  Next time I want to use a natural vat again.

This yellow is from my weld.

I made these slippers using the mauve woad merino inside and logwood outside.  The light colour has "faded" the logwood!