I have been dyeing with natural material: my notebook records preparing fabric with a mordant such as Sumac;
using onion skins or walnut husks for the dye bath.

Shibori, silk in dandelion root bath with black beans tied with string.










A strip of cotton, I had wrapped around rusty nuts & bolts. 

Recently I took a class with Velma Bolyard called Spirit Papers where we used materials such as leaves, berries, plants to make bundles to go in the dye pot with mordants of sea water, iron, rust etc. Lots of fun.


Arches paper, wrapped bundle of various natural material.