last babies

there are three coming up and most likely they'll be the last of the season. weird year this one for the urban garden. winter works will start as soon as i collect the last cucumbers. perhaps will leave the white eggplant plants as they still are in flower. who knows with this crazy weather.

the jalapeños are already wintering 

inside as the nights are quite chilly.i need to order the yuzu ,this year ill be making yuzu kosho with those beautiful jalapeños.

last year i hauled a considerable lot  of yuzu kosho from japan. gosh i'ts already been a year.!

（´＿｀）

neki desu 

 

discovery mode

this is a tannin bath .this kind of tannin is food grade the one used in winemaking and other edibles. it's a blend of quebracho,chesnut and tara and it's soluble in water.of course the crafty dyer knows that this is prime material for dyeing, albeit the shopkeeper's weird look.

and now the discovery. i/we were under the assumption that silk needed to be scoured in order to remove the sericin so that it could dye. not what i found.the top silk sample boiled to a glaring matted mess, glossy though,dyed much lighter after an overnight soak.the bottom one albeit still stiff is much darker.looked around for a proof of concept and ana lisa hedstorm has been dyeing without removing the sericin for quite a while.

the quid  pro quo would be gloss,softness and a lighter color or stiffness and a greater color intake. cast your votes.

doing a test this week  with mordanted threads to see what happens.

neki desu 

 

for those of you with the abilities

it looks straightforward and fun. as for me i'll sit and watch  ⋋__⋌ 

have a good weekend

neki desu