late at night…diving into my creative energy, i began opening my tubs of mineral dyes…iron rust, caustic soda and tannic acid. mixing them with hot water, i set them in a row on my stainless steel workbench. i deciced to start with silk scarves and cotton aida cloth (typically used for crosstitch). the colour study began. i dipped a couple of the wetted pieces of cloth in the iron rust for a minute and then in the casutic soda for a minute…it oxidized and from a light brown to a deeper rust colour. i rinsed them, then dipped one into the tannic acid for a minute, which produced a dark grey! as i tried different variations of dipping, i created 6 unique colours from these bowls of soluble mineral dyes.
now i have decide what the next step is…leave them as scarves? yup, i think so.
crosstitch on the aida cloth? that was my plan…but what? i’m thinking of making patches. we’ll see how that turns out…
