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As a total beginner I started with onion skins on cotton but with the wrong sort of mordant (I used cream of tartar with alum and salt. Go to this page to have the correct step-by-step process). Nevertheless, the effect was marvelous.
I used 25 gram of onion skin, the brownish, papery skin of the most common type, which I saved up for some months in a paper bag. The piece of fabric I dyed weighted 70 gram.
Pouch Hungarian Onion (sold)
Zipper pouch Candi has an embroidered part that is dyed with onion skin.
Shisha mirror application
Back in the days, incorporating the wings of beetles was a variation of using tiny glass mirrors. When I gleefully started my project, I thought I was original. Then, just now, I went through my own writings about shisha mirror art and concluded I did nothing new. Well, it makes all sense. Using nature goes…
Pouch ‘The Gorgeous Uzbek Girl’
Sometimes an embroidered piece of fabric that has been stitched into shape isn’t great. The zipper might pull ripples to the fabric, like waves on an ocean. Other times the pouch doesn’t become a shape, rather sags like a bag of wrinkled potatoes. Read the full post
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