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?

Poetry Monday :: Mischief :: Writers' Block

This time around I'm stealing.

I DID NOT WRITE THIS. But it's so to the point!

 I wonder if there's some kind of doc
For a bad case of writer's block
You make an appointment
He gets you some ointment
And you can get back on the clock.

This witty limerick was written by Dave of Leap of Dave.

I asked then if I could use it. ... He never answered.
It's more than a year ago. So now I just post  it.

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Next Mondays topic: Watermelon

Månedens farve - NOVEMBER - Colour of the Month

Månedens farve for november 2023 er --  The colour of the month for November 2023 is

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Poetry Monday :: Talk Show

Poetry Monday's theme today is talk shows. I do not own a TV set, nor have for many years. But when rarely, I have the chance of watching, I do not like what I hear and see. It's all about being vulgar, offensive and debasing your talk partner if any.

That's not how I remember talk shows from my youth.

Maybe I was just young, easily duped, and innocent. But I miss wit and elegance like his in today's productions.

I go back to the 70es. He was Irish, but his shows aired in Denmark in the years 1974-1978. 


Talk Show

When once I was tiny, one channel on TV
Was all that we had if we wanted to see
I remember a talk show, a man on a stool
He made fun with every thing, was not a fool
Religion, politics, education and race,
Just nothing was spared, no person, no place.
He held nothing sacred, yet never was mean.
An as he stood down and the evening's show through.
I still remember his smile and his mien:
"Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you."


He is also known for the following quote. Specifically about swear words on TV but I think it is more appropriate today than ever before:
"Language is there to be used. If you sanitise it, you take everything out of it,"

Is there any person 60 or older who has not recognized him from this?

Plant Dyeing at The Owlery - Plantefarvning i Uglebo

Månedens farve for oktober 2023 er --  The colour of the month for October 2023 is

And I have not done much yet, but I have dyed with plants from my garden. And Dahlia yellow is to be found here

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Jeg har ikke gjort så skrækkeligt meget. Men nu har jeg plantefarvet med planter fra min have; og jeg er sikker på at månedens farve kan findes her.

First off I dyed with Tansy (Clear yellow), Cow parsley (dusty yellow) and Tickseed flowers (almost red) and leaves (orange).

It is colourful, but a bit boring.

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Til start farvede jeg med rejnfan (klart gult), vild kørvel (støvet gul), skønhedsøje-blomster (næsten rød), og -blade (orange).

Det er meget farverigt, men en smule kedeligt.

Then I tied a LOT of small knots and put it back in the red and orange vats.

Now it looks like this.

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Så bandt jeg MANGE små knuder og kom garnet tilbage i de to skønhedsøje-farvebade.

Nu ser det sådan her ud.