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22 responses to “thinking, looking, seeing, trying to understand, questions. Good.”
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indigo?
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I love this photo!
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Did you find an answer?
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love love love you
but worrie a bit
wanna hold you
wanna be holed
martine make the circle to be open for all of us…….LikeLike
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planted indigo seeds today….hoping for some luscious growth to make a dye bath like yours…mmmm, so beautiful.
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looks like black bean water.
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such an expression..i smile wondering each time that i peek in…happy happy weekend…cynthia
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Patricia, you will love this: the color came from grace’s iris plants: I picked off all of the dried petals, put them in a bowl and merely added hot tap water…imagine my surprise when in about 10 min., I got blue, hence the bemused look on my face! After the photo was taken, I did a little happy dance to be able to at last join the sisterhood of the blue hands even though the blue did not come from indgio or woad.
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isn’t it just beauty FULL?…..
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many answers, as many questions
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worry?????
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again, as Marti said above, iris
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still have not done black bean.
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it’s very much her. she loves Process, outcome is
almost unimportant next to process…LikeLike
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Ooooh Grace…today I gathered iris….saved in the freezer…some yellow some gold and purple…the purple ones are getting ready to bloom…oh my, I had missed Marti’s words…iris…maybe??? color will be mine as well….here’s hoping
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yes. the color will be Yours as well.
and this was from very dried blooms. i have such trouble
pulling off anything that seems still uhhhhh, viable to the
plant and always wait too long.
this next week i hope that i will work some with the Woad.LikeLike
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is it still blue?
have you read about India Flint’s ice-flower dyeing technique? very interesting and useful when trying to dye with delicate flowers
love your expression, oh these dyeing experiments are just the bestLikeLike
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when the dyeing I tried to do with pre-schoolers a few weeks back didn’t ‘take’, the teachers said, “oh don’t worry! They’re all about process!”
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Yes Saskia the blue is still holding. (I brought scraps of old white cotton that had alum and soy milk mordant with me.)On another piece of cloth, I added some assorted leaves from foraging around grace’s land so that cloth has a more greenish blue color. My final iris cloth has an overlay of a silkier cloth that I dyed with coral berry dye that grace had in a jar (gives a grayish green) and that cloth was wrapped around another foraged bundle and put in the iris dye jar. Brought those particular bundles made at graces back home with me to sit in the sun in glass jars for a few more days.
For me it was especially wonderful to forage around grace’s land and gather things that I was not familiar with such as a particular kind of sumac, winter berry, coral berry, mallow blossoms, a few interesting weeds, etc. I had used snakeweed pods (locust) before but also gathered a few again, gives me a peachy color but the thing about dyeing that fascinates is that grace and I could use the same cloth, the same plant materials but the water in our respective homes, is the key ingredient to why we would get different results. We both made some bundles and also worked with rust washers and other rusty things and her walnut dye so those were left there.
India’s book is great isn’t it, I’ve had it for a long time and what I like the best about it is that there are no formulas or recipes, just process suggestions. I have done a lot of ice flower dyeing but using fresh floral petals. These petals were dried so I wanted to see if I could bring them to life in terms of giving color by simply using plain hot tap water and it worked.LikeLike
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when I was a little girl we had deep purple irises in the yard.I imagined I was a famous surgeon in-training. My assignment was to do surgery on the iris buds without losing any of the patients’ deep purple blood. Neither my mother or father ever mentioned the destryed iris buds sprinkled around the backyard….or my purple fingertips. Now I’m wondering why.
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Process. Today, or this moment, is Tuesday night…and
that word means even more in the moment. What IS process?.
We use the word to cover so much stuff. Process. Doing?
What is Process?
Thinking.LikeLike
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i love this so much, you, little, doing Surgery on those
buds and they would yes, be perfect for a budding surgeon…
their plumpness, so like a Being…
their oozing blood. so like a Being….
so many things never have answers. are just PICTURES
in our mindsLikeLike
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