Garden Series: Yellow
- Title
- Garden Series: Yellow
- Date
- 2019
- Dimensions
- 35” x 56”
- Media
- Handwoven textile utilizing cotton and linen yarns. The fabric incorporates woven shibori resist.
Each individual panel has been mordanted using both alum and iron mordants, and then dyed using a yellow dye plant sourced from the artist’s garden. The dyes include (from left to right):
- Dock root (Rumex crispus)
- Chinese Skullcap root (Scutellaria baicalensis)
- Rhubarb root (Rheum palmatum)
- Weld leaves and flowers (Reseda luteola)
- Coreopsis flowers (Coreopsis tinctoria)
- Chamomile flowers (Matricaria chamomilla)
- Goldenrod flowers (Solidago Sp.)
- Marigold flowers (Tagetes Sp.)
- Dyer’s Broom leaves (Genista tinctoria)
- Dyer’s Chamomile flowers (Anthemis tinctoria)