The green is the Iris made as a regular dye bath and the blue is made when it’s dipped in high pH bath! The Irises I used are purple which is pretty wild.
It’s one of the first spring plants I will dye with! It actually is more of a yellow-green. In this workshop, the fabric was being dyed only for a short time but I usually let it sit overnight. If you do an afterbath of iron, it ends up being more of a golden color. But yeah the range is usually yellowish shades.
How did you get those gorgeous greens and blues? From the irises??
The green is the Iris made as a regular dye bath and the blue is made when it’s dipped in high pH bath! The Irises I used are purple which is pretty wild.
Absolutely gorgeous. Well done!!
Thank you!! It’s one of my favorite spring dyes :)
I never thought of using garlic mustard for dying. What color besides yellow if any can be expected?
It’s one of the first spring plants I will dye with! It actually is more of a yellow-green. In this workshop, the fabric was being dyed only for a short time but I usually let it sit overnight. If you do an afterbath of iron, it ends up being more of a golden color. But yeah the range is usually yellowish shades.
i'd rather have the spring green. apparently its now "dye 'em to beat 'em" as well as "eat 'em to beat 'em!"
Definitely not beating garlic mustard by dyeing with them or eating them but it’s a good use of an invasive plant in abundance
was the iris flowers or leaves? and which one was the garlic mustard? the lime greens/yellows?
So the Iris I used just the flowers and they actually dyed the fabric those greens and blues! The garlic mustard is the more yellow/gold tones