Silk Scarves

I have been having lots of fun dyeing silk scarves. The ones on the left are dyed with cochineal and fustic, dip dyeing each scarf in both dye baths. I used onion skins with no mordant for the ones on the right. 

The scarves in the cochineal and fustic baths have been pre mordanted with alum. You can see the elastic bands I used to bunch up the silk to get a random effect.

The bunching gave a fabulous tie dye effect.

The onion skin scarves had no mordant and came out the most beautiful bronze colours.