Tuesday, April 14, 2009

easter eggs

I arrived at my friend's house on Sunday night bearing gifts of beets and marigolds and dessicated bugs. We were egg dyeing, of course! And I wanted to experiment with natural dyes.


It took a very long soak indeed for the eggs to take up the color, but they came out well in the end. The light purple is from cochineal, the deep blues are from red cabbage, the light yellow is from marigold flowers, and the splotchy tan in the back is from beets.


They're so beautiful and painterly in this clear morning light.

4 comments:

lexa said...

Those are pretty! Look at that deep blue, gorgeous!

wldrpretnd said...

The cochineal really took overnight. looks less red than i would have expected but really lovely. Glad to see the finished product because they really progressed from when i left

gayle said...

It's so funny that that deep blue comes from red cabbage - I'd expect it to produce purple...
Beautiful colors!

mel said...

Those colors are so rich - gorgeous!