Natural Bundle Dyeing - October Experiments with Iron

Using local Californian Native Plants

Mostly native plants. Bay Leaves - they’re definitely native. They grow everywhere. Everything else does grow here…but maybe not in the wild. In any case there I was mordanting some fabric (aka soaking it in stuff so the dye would “take” better) and I thought “I might as well throw in some white cotton I found laying about”. Some aluminium acetate later…