food dyed cloth

Date: Author: Category: dyes, exhibitions, food dyes, natural dyed, textiles, workshop

i spent the day a day in the swansea sun, cwmdonkin park birds tweeting in the background, working with owen to dye cotton cloth for an exhibition piece he’s making.

martha and the pomegranates
owen twisting cotton

we used pomegranate, onion, cabbage, with some woad, madder, weld and iron. we did simple clamping and twisting to get pattern.

pots in the sun. onion, cabbage, madder root
folded cotton with woad
dipped landscape – woad, iron, pomegranate