Hey folks, we really have been busy crafting. A project I’ve just come back to is acorn dye. Last fall I made dye from acorns. It took hours and hours over several days to make the dye, but it was worth it. I got a beautiful caramel color for the wool felt I dyed for stitch projects. Then I wanted to make some ink with the dye, but got sidetracked and moved on to something else. I learned that it might be preserved with some tea tree essential oil, so I thought it worth a try.
Well, it worked! Yesterday I opened it and found just dye, no mold or anything nasty. I heated it up, dyed some more wool felt (putting some in iron water to modify and darken), and then set about making acorn ink by adding some gum arabic to thicken it. I put some of the ink in a separate container and added ferrous sulfate to darken it. What fun results I had! Just take a look for yourself:
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