Well I finally produced some results which are good in parts – like the vicar’s egg. The piece that turned out best was using purple over a blue and green and bleach piece from an earlier session. When I looked at the back of the fabric having painted on the dye it was almost completely purple so I thought it was another disaster in the making. I had visions of a dark purple piece of cloth. Having seen that I really held back on the other 2 pieces and didn’t use so much dye. However after rinsing although you can still see the purple as a shadow the marbling/veining lines are quite a bit darker and the end result is by far the best.
Purple PD
Detail
The other 2 pieces have hardly any colour on them and are rather a disappointment. So I’m only going to bore you with one photo of them. They really aren’t anything to write home about, but in the interests of science…
PD moon
So PD is still a bit of a mystery to me. I think I shall pursue this with pre-dyed fabric. I liked those results best. The others had too much white in for me.
The other good piece of news is that I finally got around to asking at the pharmacists about getting PD there. Well actually I sent Sqeze on this little errand on his Monday off. They could get it but weren’t sure if it was from potato. A phone call in the evening confirmed that it was, so I have ordered a kilo from them. That’s the sort of service I don’t usually expect in D. It’s our local pharmacist here in Schmitten. We like to support the local business – especially when they are service oriented.
