Monday, December 10, 2007
Experimenting
A year ago I found a fascinating book called Wild Color. It is all about making dyes from plant materials. I have been wanting to try some of the ideas in there for a long time now. So, last week I experimented with making a dye from eucalyptus leaves. Here is a photo of the results. The rusty orange yarn in the foreground is what I dyed, the green yarn is one I bought. I thought the two colors looked pretty together. Isn't the orange an interesting color for eucalyptus leaves to make?
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It is. There are trees like that everywhere in Australia. I can't remember if my uncle ever used them when I watched him dye wool years ago. I have my dye book still. We call them gum trees.
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