Mordanted fat quarters in iron, marigold, indigo, marigold+indigo, logwood, logwood+ indigo, logwood + marigold and logwood + marigold+ indigo.
Both Cara and I taught new online workshops about tannins and natural dyes this month. Cara introduced Tannin Grayscale, a fascinating look into using iron and tannin to create a rich range of deep and moody neutrals. I had envisioned that this would be a workshop on gray, gray and more gray, but the surprise was that her techniques create some beautifully saturated shades. My workshop was Tannin Rainbow, where I concentrated on combining different tannin mordanted fabrics with natural dye colors to make a variety of colors.
The base fabric for these explorations was our mordanted tannin fat quarters – cotton fabric pre-mordanted with gallo-tannin, sumac, cutch and quebracho. They are lots of fun to work with and offer an easy way to experiment with color gradations.
From top to bottom: Gallo tannin, sumac. cutch and quebracho moreno
This workshop offering will be part of our regular rotation so we hope you can join us next time!
