CABBAGE SHIRT: An experiment with nature's pigment. 👕

in #nature6 years ago (edited)

This is a picture-story about a cabbage...

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...a wrinkled shirt.

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... and the naturally-obtained color purple.

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I could not resist that hue, and thought of the old, dingy pinpeapple love tee-shirt that could only be made better, so...

When the cabbage was done cooking, I poured the hot liquid onto the tee.

Boca supervised. 😻

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It turned out a cross between denim blue and periwinkle. I like it.

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Next time... BEETS!

P.S. Loving shout-out to @hempress and @elamental who inspire me
with the beautiful (and researched!) plant-dying they do.

Your positive example RIPPLES, friends...

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*** As titled, this post was an EXPERIMENT. ***

The beautiful color faded considerably after just one washing.

So here is a TUTORIAL, on how to color with red cabbage using an iron mordant, which should help the color fix.

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Your food really is a lot of fun.

I just had a flashback to my childhood when our hippie teacher spent a day showing us how to tie-dye.

@lensessions, hippies really DO know best :-)

I bet the TAG says Wash Cold Water, Do Not Use Bleach...............

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