Endeavor to change - Mustard dye 植物印染衣飾

 

 A botanical imprinted scarf / vest redyed to mustard color.  

This is the piece of prints I endeavor to redye for gradual color.

 I picked the Lagerstroemia Indica with some yellow, red and green.  Hope to get different shades from autumn windfalls.

 I laid the assorted leaves, a few eucalyptus and bundle boiled the silk fabric for 1.5 hours.

This is the picture of the layout and outcome.

 I intended to put some more leaves on the top of the square fabric to make it a vest / scarf, simply lined two arm holes and hemmed. A multi-style of vest of "upside-down".

 Prints of Lagerstroemia Indica are not much different in spite of green or windfalls of yellow . The long and orange prints are eucalyptus.

 With tannin of leaves and iron, the watercolor painterly effect is so pleasing but I sometimes this is only happy accidents.

 Prints on the collar as a vest .......

 Simply a scarf

 

I thought it's no harm to make mustard color on the lower part.

 So I redyed the fabric in the eco dye pot.

The left one is before and right one is after dyed.

 The scarf / vest of gradual green

 Left is undyed, the right one dyed

 

I've to admit the original undyed one is fair enough but keen on experiments I will get the idea of different effect.  

On and off people asked me about eco print / dye.  I'm happy to share common queries.  For my way of getting this mustard green on silk, I use turmeric + logwood + alum. 

 Before putting in the dye pot, I soak the fabric in water with alum.   I soak the logwood chips for a few hours then wrap it with a scrap of fabric, .  For a pot of about 1 L water, I put a teaspoon each of turmeric, logwood and alum.  All together bring to boil then simmer for 10 min.  The longer the stay in the pot the darker the color. 

That's what I got.

Have a nice day ! Until next time.