Serendipity & Plantefarver / Plant Dye

Til valnøddefarverdagen havde en af de andre deltagere taget en gryde godt kogte hestekastanjeskaller med. De kan under gunstige omstændigheder give rødt, men resultatet blev ret kedeligt, nærmest som den farve, der hed hudfarve i æskerne med farvekridt i gamle dage. Da jeg havde bundet knuder på garnet, var det meste af det hvidt. Jeg har ikke noget billede, så det må I tænke jer til.

Så ville jeg overfarve det med gult fra en masse farveplanter, som voksede rundet om i haven (de der bi- og insektblandinger indeholder alt muligt ;) ). For at bevare noget af kastanjefarven, bandt jeg rundt om garnet med noget tykt spaghettigarn, jeg havde. Og her har vi så balladen; Spaghettigarnet var grønt! og det smittede af. Garnet endte med at se ud som på billedet. Det mørkegrønne bindegarn er med på det indsatte lille billede.

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At the walnut colouring day, one of the other participants brought a pot of well-boiled chestnut shells. Under favourable circumstances, they can produce red, but the result was rather dull, almost like the colour called skin colour in the boxes of crayons in the old days. As I had tied small knots all over the yarn, most of it was white. I don't have a photo, so you'll have to imagine that.

Then I wanted to over-dye it with yellow from a bunch of colourful flowers growing in the garden (those bee and insect mixtures contain all sorts of things ;) ). To preserve some of the chestnut colour, I tied around the yarn with some thick spaghetti yarn I had. And here's the problem: The spaghetti yarn was green! and it bled, quite a lot. The yarn ended up looking like in this the picture. The dark green yarn is included in the small inset picture.

Min tanke er: Gad vide om man kan udnytte det? Hvis man nu rev et gammelt bomuldslagen i strimler og så farvede dem, og så viklede, snoede osv. rundt om et bejdset fed uldgarn. Ville det så mon give noget af den samme melerede effekt?

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Now I wonder if this can be done with plant dyes too. If I tore some old cotton sheet into strips and then dyed them, and later wrapped, twisted, etc. those strips around a mordanted skein of wool yarn. Could this possibly give the same mottled effect?