A wet piece of cotton...looking like silk...first boiled in cream of tartar, then boiled in alkanet solution, with maple and oak leaves in the bundle... And after all that I wrapped it around my favorite chunk of steel pipe...there may have been a vinegar and scarlet runner bean-flower bath too...so the iron was a post-mordant.
This was an antique linen pillowcase. I rusted a scrap, leaving it white with spots...then bathed it in the vinegar/runner bean solution. The areas saturated with rust darkened to purple, but the untouched white areas took on the pale orangish-pink of the dye.
Some other rust-dyed pieces, silk and cotton, mostly wrapped around pieces of rusted iron.
The purples on the two pieces above appeared in seconds, where once the rust-dyed cloth looked like the topmost scrap in the photo, after dipping in the vinegar/runner bean jar.
A long piece of linen, wrapped and re-wrapped around the pipe over many days. This is about 50 inches long, and 9 inches wide.
Silk and cotton...multiple baths...maple and oak...I lose track.
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