Sulphur Cosmos Flowers
£10.00
Sulphur Cosmos flowers - whole dried flowers, grown in the British Isles with natural permaculture farming practices which build soil health.
Use for bundle dyeing to create direct prints on textiles and paper, or for steeped in water to create a dyepot for immersion dyeing.
Colours:
Strong orange colours on protein fibres.
Bright orange on wool.
Ingredients: Whole dried Sulphur Cosmos flowers
Native origins: North American praries.
Growing:
Grown on a farm in Guernsey using naturaul farming techniques, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fungacides.
Recipe:
100% WOF - Orange
50 grams will dye 100g of protien fibre a deep orange colour - lighter orange on cellulose fibres.
To make a dye, add enough water to create the space required for your fibres to move around freely in.
Bring to a simmer and keep at 82 celsius for 30 mins. Strain using a sieve and cheesecloth. Add pre-wetted fibres and simmer for 60 mins or until desired depth of colour achieved. Remove from heat and cool. Rinse, wash and air dry.
Ref Botanical Inks book for further info on dyeing instructions for cellulose/protein fibres, mordanting etc..
For bundle dyeing, follow instructions in my book or using the online workshop recording, available within this online store.
Fastness:
Good fastness to sunlight, rubbing and washing.
Mordants/Modifiers:
Alum brightens and deepens orange/rusts on animal fibres and oranges on plant fibres.
A tiny measure of an alkaline such as soda ash will shift orange to more reddish shades.
Ph sensitivity:
Sensitive to ph levels.
Alkalines shift to more reddish colours.
Transport:
Air courier from Guernsey to English mainland
Shipped from Botanical Inks in Bristol via Royal Mail
Packaging:
Packaged in natural unbleached food grade waxed paper, and secured with natural plant gum paper tape and 100% natural unbleached twine and placed inside a biodegradable corn starch mailer bag - safe for health and environment.
