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milkweedman · 1 year ago

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dyed a braid and a couple handfuls of locks with some of the red onion skin dye and copper mordant, just to see what i’d get, and it’s so pretty, but i have... no way to take pictures

#it's a really nice russet #i also pre-mordanted the braid and left the copper in there for the rest of the time and tossed the locks in with the dye #and got darker colors on the locks. which might just be a breed difference (i don't know the breed of either bc they were mislabeled #by the sellers)#but also is really cementing to me that there's not much point in pre-mordanting with copper #but also ! got all the color out of the dyebath and it pretty much all stuck to the fiber. always satisfying #natural dye #natural dyeing

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