Dyeing process 2

2.Dyeing

  • Boil the onion peels gently. Avoid onion peels and take the dye, then repeat this process several times to make enough dye which let the cloth move freely.
  • Soak the cloth in dye and boil on low heat for around 40 minutes, then put out the fire and soak it for 20 minutes.
  • Prepare two kinds of mordant; alum and iron water (ohaguro). Different mordants will give different colors from the same plants.
  • Soak one side of the scarf in alum, another in iron water for 20 minutes.
  • Color fixing effects increase and get the strength in sunlight and washing by repeating several times of this process; plants, mordant, plants, mordant.

Take the dye of onion


Soak the cloth


Color changes while soaked in iron water
Wash in cold water