Remember my modifier experiment? I have two jars of wonder, based on Jenny Dean’s instructions. One contains offcuts of copper pipe from my Dad, vinegar and water. It’s been steeping for months. My first effort at iron water didn’t work out as I’d hoped, more like a science experiment! This one is based on my friend’s collecton of bent nails. He has been turning pallets into furniture, so he has removed a lot of nails. They got left out in the rain and, bless him! He thought of me. Here they are, left to right:
Mystery Science Experiment, Rusty Nail Water, Copper Pipe Water.
Here are my E Torquata samples on hand spun wool and commercial wool/hemp blend:
Unmodified at the top, Iron modifier next, Copper modifier at the bottom. I have to admit, this isn’t a deeply exciting result.
And here are my E Torquata leaf prints on recycled linen (the darker one was the side against the cast iron pipe):
Here are the prints from my ‘is it E Scoparia?’ experiment. The answer is a tentative ‘yes!’ Recycled linen on the left, recycled silk on the right. I included the very young, soft, green foliage you can see printed toward the bottom partly because I have been asked whether it is true you need to use young foliage to get good leaf prints. My experience is that you don’t (though of course, you can).
Finally… a gratuitous photo of an E Torquata flowering very pinkly in a car park in my place of work. One of my co-workers came out of the building to see me with a pile of papers in one hand and my phone in the other, and said: ‘What are you doing, Mary?’ As you would, really.
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