Textiles Blog Joshua Artiga

 

For the first picture I experimented with 2 pieces of cloth and avocado pits. I made sure the avocado pits were below the cloths. The first cloth I left in for 5 minutes and the second for ten minutes. I used 3 cups of water and 3 peels of avocado pits. In the picture with all 4 cloths, you can see the top right is the 5 minutes and the bottom right is the one that was left in for ten minutes. In the saem picture The two pink cloths are ones that I dyed with 5 Strawberries. I used 2 cups of water, and boiled one for 10 minutes and the other for 20 minutes.    

      For the first piece of cloth that I dyed pictured at the  bottom right I folded the square cloth in half and then folded one have into a triangle and rolled it up completely until it looked like mini burrito. I used 2 cups of water, 1/2 a tablespoon of turmeric and boiled it for 5 minutes. For the second one I used 4 cups of water, 2 1/2 tablespoons of turmeric and boiled for 10 mins. I did not fold this piece of cloth I only crumbled it up and through it in to boil. For the 3rd dyed piece of fabric I used 4 cups of fabric, 4 tbsp of turmeric and boiled for  5 minutes. For this boil I folded it into as many triangles as I could. For the final piece of fabric I used 2 cups of water and one table spoon of turmeric and boiled for 5 minutes. I folded this piece into as many squares as I could. I think that my favorites so far are the first and the 3rd one. The 3rd one is the darkest one that came out and I'm really digging this color.