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harvesting goldenrod ! slowly getting acquainted with the landscape in norway 🌟🪹🌟

#maker's diary #harvested a lot more than i thought i did !#hoping to make a big dye vat for some cottons and then hopefully turn the rest into lake pigment ?!?

lost half of my nettle fibers to a mold accident :'^) at least i still have some left and am about to harvest more, but its quite sad bc i had a big quantity already ! guess its how i learn to be more careful in storaging them !

#the pith i was saving for papermaking also molded but im less sad about that bc i dont have the tools for papermaking yet !#maker's diary

nettle saltwater retting !

#nettle processing #urtica dioica #didnt ret aaaall the nettles bc we forgot we had more from the day before ! but oh well it will be a good comparison #maker's diary #fiber processing

trying henna dyeing on cotton bc i saw several sources saying it gives light greens, but so far it seems like i got a brown-green in the first hour after extraction & just brown in the second hour 😪

still, love how many green-yielding dyes only hold up during the first steeping or during the first hour of extraction !!

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thinking about how best to size my dyed fabrics for painting (ideally for egg tempera 🌟)

i dont care much for the look of canvas stretched on canvas-bars and my fabrics are too thin to withstand that kind of pressure anyway

the ideal situation would be to turn the fabrics into bookcloth bc then i can paste it on a variety of surfaces (as long as it stays flat because of the paint), but i'd have to size the fabric on both sides for it to work as a painting surface

and idk that should theoretically work?? if it does the question becomes which glue/sizing to use....at uni we were taught to use cornstarch as a vegan alternative to rabbit skin glue, but i never ran tests to see if its too hygroscopic to be preserved in the long term ! there's also paper sizings like agaragar that i have no experience with (but might be worth a shot?)

#don't have my notebook on hand to write down all of this fjskfjslfhskdh #but if anyone has suggestions pls lmk !#maker's diary

ok so im realizing that nettle dye darkens with any stove heat post-steeping.... wondering if i could pull off cold dyeing it or solar dyeing so its less intense heat?? i need those minty greens that the steeping sample scraps hint at !!

#for now more bog colours fhskfjskdh #maker's diary #if anyone has tips lmk

loosely recontextualizing my chronic illnesses through painting local roman artefacts and votives :'^) one day the paint will all be eroded but the wishes for a better body remain both for me and for the bracari that built the votives (v. s. l. m.)

#basically a wrap up of a project that has been going on for years hopefully !!!#just have to work a bit more on compositions etc #and plan the wood & solder frames #maker's diary

my first hand-dyed garment ☀️ this was an old white zara skirt that was forgotten in my mum's closet ! pulled the hem up a bit, changed the closure from a zipper to buttons & dyed it bright beautiful yellow with pomegranate rinds :^)

the leftover fabric was turned into ribbons for medieval hair taping (very nice to have matching ribbons!) and some scraps used for overdyeing with other plants at a later time

photos are from the sweet @magpieinavest after a wonderful day in their gran's garden 💛

#this was soooo fun to do and makes me want to dye everything yellow !!#plant dye #natural dyes #maker's diary #also my first upcycled garment i think?#now omw to answer messages 🕯 its been a struggle lately lol

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