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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.
Update
Dear readers of this creative (ad)venture, A few new posts on both my weblogs have been published but not wanting to have your inbox being notified, I thought it a good time to send one now. I won’t publish any time soon, as we are off for a cycling tour. Summer coming up I thought…
Ted & Tina
Another new pouch, embroidered in phulkari stitch from North India, or… how I interpret this stitch. Dyed with mulberry from the forest and grapes from our own garden. The grape juice was used to make vinegar. It looks not very appetizing, but the result is already finished. The fabric was first treated with oak galls.…
Little loss brings forth
A year ago something happened and even though it concerned just a cat, it made a very big impact. The more you attach yourself and the amount of attention you give, make the loss only bigger. This new creation springs forth from the sadness and quite aching missing of just a cat. I call this…
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