"Life is an onion-you peel it year by year and sometimes weep."
Carl Sandburg
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| We grow a lot of onions! We grow Candy Sweets as they are not readily available in stores and are really good. The dye material they are wrapped in is a bonus! We also grow a few red onions. |
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| Just lay them out on the silk and roll them up. With no other plant material you end up with a kind of marbled effect. I used scraps of silk dupioni for these samples. |
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This with no mordant.
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This is with an alum mordant.
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This is red onion skin with an alum mordant. Love the shots of green!
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| Iron pot as a pre mordant, I filled the pot with water and a small touch of vinegar, heated it to boiling, shut off the heat, let it cool for an hour and then added the piece of silk. I let it soak for several hours. Then I rolled up the onionskins and steamed. |
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| Here they are all laid out side by side. Normally I would just be adding crumbled onionskins around leaves, but I thought this was a good way to show different mordants and eventually I will use the fabric for various projects. The next post will show the effect of rusty objects as a co-mordant. |
You can find my handmade supplies in my Etsy shop and scarves in the Pottery Place Plus online store.
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