MORDANT PAINTING WORKSHOPS

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 he silk scarves with their designs painted with mordants.