Thursday, February 19, 2009

Yummy berry colored silk


Look what my roommate tripped over on her way into the house today! Some little thread fairy dropped these off on my doorstep without a note or anything. Looks like my friend Renee has fired up the dyebath again. I just love the berry colors, good enough to eat. The tags say cochineal and indigo. One of the colors is a bit grayer than the others, did she mordant with iron instead of alum? I don't know, I am no dyer so I'll have to ask Renee. These are so pretty they deserve to be used in a project. Soon...

2 comments:

Liadain said...

ooo, silk envy... ;-)
Beautiful stuff!

Gina-B said...

Lovely! Wish i had a thread fairy like that! ;-)