Natural wool dyeing 5. Red onion skin dying (modified and non-modified)

September 17, 2019

Natural wool dyeing 5. Red onion skin dying (modified and non-modified)

One evening I took all my onion skin I collected so far. It was a bunch in a small bag (I hope you can see in the photo how much. I don't know in grams. More than 100 gr, may be 150-200 gr). I put it into my aluminium pot full of water.

Then I put it on a stove and heated a little, so it started seaming and the next second I switched the stove off and left it like that till the morning.

Next day, in the morning I heated it again and left on number 2 fire for 2 hours to extract as much color as possible.

Then I passed this colored water through a sieve. I know how hard to get rid of plant parts from wool. And put my already prepared (wound in hank from skein to dye and soaked in water) wool into it and put on stove again, again I heated and left till the evening.

In the evening I rinsed both hanks and modified one with an iron water.

The next day it got almost dry (not completely, but I wanted to show you the result, hanks are practically dry on photos).

Please, see the result! ^_^ I am happy, because modified onion skin hank is green! I suppose that not red but normal onion skin makes modified wool in greener, cooler tone. I hope to try once, later when I get enough onion skin. So far...