Comments on: The Apron That Turned Out To Be A Dress http://ayalahhutchins.com/blog/2010/07/09/the-apron-that-turned-out-to-be-a-dress/ Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:36:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rosalyn http://ayalahhutchins.com/blog/2010/07/09/the-apron-that-turned-out-to-be-a-dress/comment-page-1/#comment-314 rosalyn Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:46:26 +0000 http://ayalahhutchins.com/blog/?p=3285#comment-314 it's so pretty ayalah!!! it’s so pretty ayalah!!!

]]> By: india http://ayalahhutchins.com/blog/2010/07/09/the-apron-that-turned-out-to-be-a-dress/comment-page-1/#comment-307 india Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:32:30 +0000 http://ayalahhutchins.com/blog/?p=3285#comment-307 that's what i like about offering this approach to reconstruction, that everyone comes up with a different outcome may i add also that while some folks chose to bring logwood and cochineal to class i would not choose to use them myself. i like to utilize bio-regional colour sources. logwood makes me particularly uncomfortable as a tree has to be cut down in order to harvest the chips for the dye [they come from the heartwood] - but who am i to tell you what to do? all that aside, the application of plant dyes is [possibly] deceptively simple, everything offers some kind of colour, tis just a matter of knowing how to coax it out and how to get it to affix to the next substrate... that’s what i like about offering this approach to reconstruction, that everyone comes up with a different outcome
may i add also that while some folks chose to bring logwood and cochineal to class i would not choose to use them myself.
i like to utilize bio-regional colour sources. logwood makes me particularly uncomfortable as a tree has to be cut down in order to harvest the chips for the dye [they come from the heartwood] – but who am i to tell you what to do?

all that aside, the application of plant dyes is [possibly] deceptively simple, everything offers some kind of colour, tis just a matter of knowing how to coax it out
and how to get it to affix to the next substrate…

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