Coreopsis extract (gold), saskatoons (green)
Month: July 2019
Coreopsis, sappan, saskatoons
Fresh coreopsis (orange), sappan wood (red), saskatoons (purple).
Saskatoons and sappan wood
Sappan wood gives quite a nice purple over a very quick dip in saskatoon berries dye (light blue)
Saskatoon berries, frozen.
Both shades come from the same dye, it works fast, not sure though how it will handle the sun.
Madder
I don’t know how people get bright red from madder, this is all I can get, and that on a brown egg.
Elderflower and sappan wood
If you keep an egg in elderflower dye for a while, it gives an intense almost mustardy greenish yellow. Contrasts well with the red of sappan wood.
Coreopsis fresh flowers
First egg in a dye gives a color like this, then it becomes pale orange towards coral.
Last two weeks
Made some more eggs, some were attempts to copy Lithuanian drop-pull eggs, while others were inspired by Lithuanian patterns. A number of dyes – two of coreopsis (extract and fresh), elderflower (dried), sappan wood, madder, saskatoon berries (frozen), I think that’s it though I might have forgotten something. Mainly with alum, one egg had sappan wood with iron on background.
Slightly disappointing green
This is one of the Asian medicinal herbs, butterfly pea (clitoria ternata) that produces a stunningly blue liquid, which I didn’t have very high expectations of, but still had to try. On an egg it came out with an unimpressive greenish on the left. The yellow from dried elderflowers on the right is here just for comparison.
