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Robinia bark gives a soft brownish hue. Perhaps with a shade of red, or, almost a light chai color. I used the bark for dyeing only on one sort of of hemp cotton. Looking at the bark is the color I got.
Pouch Sawn Tree Trunk is dyed with robinia bark.
Go to this page to have the correct step-by-step process. I leave the cotton overnight in the dye bath.
I use pieces of scoured cotton fabric which weigh (less than) 100 gram in a 20 liter pot.
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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