January 7 – 12, 2008
MORDANT PAINTING with Mushroom Dyes – with Eleanor Adams and Lolli Jacobsen
In this workshop, we achieved multiple colors with one dyepot, by painting concentrated mordants – alum, tin, iron, copper, tannic acid, onto a silk scarf and/or a cotton hankerchief. We set the mordants with heat, dipped our pieces into the provided dyepots and voilà – multiple colors from from the same mushroom on one piece of cloth!
Painting
the mordants on the silk
Some of the silk scarves with
their designs painted with mordants.
Many thanks for Symposium Mordant photos submitted by Betsy Samuelsen and Leslie Humphrey.