#dyeing basics

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

wild to me that there are people who have no desire to paint their walls in fun ways. and i don't just mean "people who choose sad neutral colors on purpose" i mean: why aren't more homeowners out there scribbling on their walls? it's your property, you can paint and color and draw whatever you want to! when did we as a species stop fingerpainting our homes that was a mistake

[bacchuschucklefuck]

they tried to rebrand as The Criminals but riz is literally the city council's treasurer and also turns out people in their late 20s don't really name their friend groups. so now they're The Intrepid Heroes

[archivesweats]

the gay dads and their biological offspring

some people see every project as an opportunity to do something new, I just repeat and modify what I know

[momo-shut-the-fuck-up]

Gottem

[krisalyce]

Sigma baking cookies:3 he deserves some peace and quiet

@flapjacksboi he sent fyodor and nikolai out to go see the new colleen hoover movie they are not getting any

[chibifox2002]

Ok so @palettepainter's Muppet art made me wanna try my hand at drawing my favorites!

Edit: Fun fact I used to be scared of Big Bird as a child! Couldn't tell you why tho lmao!

And then since I didn't wanna just tag Pallete in a post with shitty Kermit and Big Bird doodles I decided to draw my favorite of THEIR Muppet ocs!

*stares happily in "is a twin" *

(Penny's hair was super fun to draw! I love her🩷🏳️‍⚧️)

[weaverofink]

trans girl kon!!!!!! she is everything to me

bonus:

[handweavers]

trying to learn more about soil and clay for earth pigments purposes (ie using earth pigments for making paint for both fabric printing and watercolours) which i've studied before and have taught classes on working with purchased earth pigments for the above purposes, but i'm trying to understand more about exactly how these pigments form in the soil and thus how to most easily find them outside myself. and the easiest solution i've found is to read my dad's earth science textbook on 'the nature and properties of soils' from 1996 like, for fun essentially, front to back, and try to absorb as much as i can from it

like when i describe myself as a textile artist and talk about making paint and dyes and weaving people think it's exciting, which it can be, but people keep asking me where i get my knowledge from and i can't emphasize enough how much of my life is spent sitting in my house reading 20+ year old university textbooks on soil and ethnobiology papers titled like 'utilizing non-timber forest products in traditional culture: iban dyes of sarawak' while being a high school dropout lol

[yourplaceinaugust]

why do i always get obsessed with rare pairs or dead ships? Like i will get into a fandom from a popular ship and then immediately ignore that ship and focus on the weirdest ships and make them my entire personality

[claudtrait]

DAMN girl im surprised ur hair hasn't fallen out yet..

[milkweedman]

Tried a bit of dyeing. The buckthorn berries out front are a lot harder to get than last year, but luckily they're a pretty potent dyestuff, and a handful or two is enough to dye an armful or so of wool.

Last year i got a beautiful golden green.

This year... at first, kind of blueish purple ? I ended up doing a quick test to see how it feels about being alkali or acidic. The acidic one basically just turned white again, which is kind of hihilarious. The alkali one though turned a bit green. In my test I didn't add any extra dye broth, just fresh water and lemon juice/baking soda.

Ive gotten better results adding a bunch of dye liquid into the alkali pot though, so I tried it here. We'll see the results. This id definitely a more blue green than yellow green like my last one.

Ive read that you get bluer dye the earlier the berries are harvested, which checks out here. Last year it was late summer and I picked dried berries from the ground. This year, they have just started ripening in earnest and are not dried.

Anyway, did not weigh anything of course but it was maybe 2 double handfuls of fresh early berries and an armful of wool mordanted in alum. First I cooked the berries on low, then mashed them, cooked a little longer on low (maybe 3 hours total), added the mordanted wool, cooked for another 3 or so hours. Then added to alkali bath with lots of extra dye broth.

With the exhaust, which is just as strong looking, I added another armful of wool, this time unmordanted, with a glug or so of copper mordant. Partway thru pouring I realized, ah, the copper mordant is suspended in vinegar so this will be acidic so I will probably get no color.

Curious if that will be true. If it takes on no color before I go to bed I will probably add a lot of baking soda and see what that does. But I'm hoping copper mordant = even stronger green.

I also read that if you can remove the buckthorn skins you can get blue.... now that would be a treat. It sounds labor intensive but I want to try it later if I can. Ive never gotten blue with foraged materials before.

Wool I'm using is clun forest x shetland.

Few other things: I've noticed recently that berries seem to produce much better results if you can cook them on low for only a short while. 3 hours counts as short in the world of natural dyeing; I've had dyepots on for 48 hours pretty regularly. Onion skins for example do best if you can get every last scrap of color from the skins, which can take several days. Berries, though...not so much. I think this could explain my pokeberry issues. I hope i can try with them again.

[blondeaxolotl]

Mey-Ron fankids are here yippee!!!

bonus comic with Ronald and his twins:

[transmechanicus]

hold on, didnt you use to have long-ish hair? its been a while since ive been on tumblr, like a couple months. i remember you having like, shoulder length hair? or did i mistake you for another trans girl poster?

I mean i do have a couple cosplay wigs (see above) that i use and prefer if i’m taking selfies. My natural hair is basically always a grown out buzzcut (see below) and is normally a really boring dirty blonde so i keep it bleached, or more recently have tried dying it. You’re probably confusing me with someone else, wouldn’t be the first time😅

[pegglefan69]

it's incredible how much wearing 1 necklace + 2 bracelets has made me feel more like myself. Before you know it I'll be regularly wearing a fragrance again & i will have properly escaped This Phase of Winter

[actuallyawallflower]

Basically everyone in Hamlet:

[axemetaphor]

been working on many a clothing lately actually