Cochineal
Walnuts
Pam, Anne, and Kristine
Walkway to Point Bonita
Point Bonita view
old pier, complete with cormorants
base of the Golden Gate bridge
Young doe in the mist
Onion skins being soaked for a yellow dye
ground black walnut hulls being soaked for a brown dye
European mistletoe being soaked for a green-grey dye
Cochineal in a nylon sock soaking for a red dye
Yarn in process of being dyed with cochineal
Yarn in process of being dyed with black walnut
Yarn in process of being dyed with onion skin bath
Darlene Hayes, dyer
first samples. From left to right: cochinea, walnut, cochineal with ammonia afterbath, onion, cochineal, cochineal with iron afterbath, cochineal with ammonia afterbath
Cochineal in all its pretty colors
Kristine's felting classwork
More of Kristine's felting classwork
Local coyote checking for scraps
Jeane, Darlene, and Sheila
Anne working on her felt vest
Kristine doing magic with thread and felt
The carnage in the spinning room
Morgaine Wilder, our heroine
Morgaine Wilder, Carolina Homespun
Contact dyeing experiments
Darlene serenading Judith
The Golden Gate Fiber Institute Summer Intensive, 2009
Free-dyeing day results. Logwood, madder, cochineal, osage orange, indigo, sometimes combined, sometimes not.
What I learned on my summer vacation
