natural egg dyes, an update
Last year I posted my experience dying eggs with natural materials. I mentioned that it takes a lot of material to get a good pigment, that they do well sitting about 24 hours in the solution at room temp (I use empty shells so don't refrigerate but refrigerating the jars is probably fine), and that they need time to "develop" - at first they all look mottled grey and beige but the next morning they look nice.
This year I tried 3 more colors based on what I had around, including the onion skins I have been collecting in a jar for a year for this purpose.
Black beans - blueish grey
Onion skins - dark orangish brown, like burnt sienna maybe?
Pomegranat skins - yellow (i only had 3 pomegranates so it was sort of light)
I also tried the trick of putting the egg in pantyhose with leaves pressed against it. It worked better in 2 of the 3 than expected! The clover + onion skins turned out like expected, but the black beans + some leaf I picked from my yard did the opposite and was darker underneath, very cool, no idea how to recreate it.
My chickens' eggs are brown shades, so last year I "bleached" them in vinegar and rubbed the top colored layer off before dying. That made them brittle and chalky and the color faded quickly. It also made the dyes only work for 1 egg I think because the calcium collected in the pigment. This year I just chose lighter eggs and put a splash of vinegar in the color solution.
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