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As a total beginner I tried my hands on black walnut since the ground where we are is covered with them. I used three pieces of different cotton but with the wrong sort of mordant (I used cream of tartar with alum and salt/vinegar. Go to this page to have the correct step-by-step process). After several trials and a second dye bath with much more black walnuts than the first dye bath, the effect on the hemp/cotton piece of fabric became marvelous.
I used a lot of black walnuts, and since I didn’t know what to use exactly, I had the pot filled to the brim with both peels and the cracked nuts.
I used the decaying black walnuts in early winter.
A pillow filled with dried cleaver was dyed with black walnut.
Zipper pouch ‘Askew black walnut’
Elderberry syrup (and more)
Incorporating the gifts of nature, for food, teas and coloring. Some are really money savers: who does not like that?
The life of Pi(llow)
The movie I saw on an airplane after the book I red in India. I liked both. My husband did not. But my imagination is big and I love to escape in my own world, so it fitted me. The same with this pillow, this little write up is about the life of this Pi(llow).…
Fabricated forest
Living the simple life, far off and working the land hard needs to be counterbalanced. What’s better than a tour by own powered strenght and… embroidery. Here, ‘Fabricated forest’ was made.
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