black hollyhocks, dark red hollyhocks, dk pink hollyhocks
hollyhock dyes from L to R they are: black, dark red, dark pink, pink, light pink, yellow and white...the stems did nothing! hollyhock on wool with alum and cream of tarter! Solar dyed.
Monday, August 29, 2005
a little different, food color dyed self-striping yarn that I entered in our local fair!
silk dyed with black-eyed susans...this is actually greener than the picture appears.
silk dyed with hollyhocks and osage orange
wool dyed in tansy, marigold, trumpet flower, and hollyhocks
the whole shebang...all the dyeing...included are hollyhocks, marigolds, tansy, black-eyed susans, cone flowers, sunflowers, osage orange and B-ES stems
hollyhock dye only on my backporch: from L to R they were black hollyhocks, red, pink, lighter pink, very light pink, yellow &white
more of my back porch...wool and silk soaking in flower dyes
my back porch...the ultimate solar dyer: flowers soaking for dye and wool and silk soaking in dye