More colourful scarfs.

I tryed dyeing silk scarfs with cochineal and annatto with some very nice results.
The annatto was a gritty powder which gave a lovely yellow after using an alum mordant. I tryed dyeing some wool in the same dye bath which was a mistake because I should have strained the grit from the liquid. The wool was totally full of grit that would not wash out and had to be thrown away. The silk was fine and came out a lovely yellow.
The pale pink came from a cochineal vat using no mordant. After putting a small amount of citric acid in the vat I got a much deeper pink on the next scarf.

 

The patterns were made using shibori techniques, folding, wrapping and stitch gathering.