Dying Wool with Onion Skins
Onion skins is a common and old favourite when dying fleece or fabric. I always save up the skins till I have a good amount and this week I decided I needed to reduce the number I had on hand so here I am boiling up the skins with some fleece wool. This dye is substantive so doesn’t need a mordant to get the dye to take.
I wanted to also try reducing the dye to form ink, so I kept sampling the dye after I removed the fleece till I got a really intense colour. I think the skins could probably have been used to create paper, but I was out of time for further experiments this week.
What is my current Textile Focus
My interest in textile art is wide and varied. My focus at the moment is on completing panels for my scholarship project Parallels in Maori and Celtic customs and art. I am currently working on a Tromp L’oeil piece that represents the Winter solstice coming through a gap in the hills that was important to both cultures in mapping their seasonal world. the centre piece is hand embroidered and now I am trying to complete the effect of adding small pieces fabrics to create the effect I am looking for