Rumena kozmeja - Yellow cosmos - Cosmos sulphureus

 

 

Tele lepe rožice niso samo lepe, ampak dajo tudi lepo barvo na volno. Letos se jih je na vrtu zasejalo zelo veliko in sem jih precej pustila rasti. Zdaj obilno cvetijo, pridno jih obiram, skoraj vsak drugi dan, in jih sušim za kasnejše barvanje.

Kakšnih 150 cvetov sem pa svežih skuhala in uporabila za barvanje. 

 

 

These pretty flowers are not only pretty themselves, they also give a pretty colour on wool. This year many flowers self-seeded in the garden. I let grow many plants which are now in full bloom. I pick flowers almost every other day and dry them for later dyeing.

I cooked about 150 fresh flowers and used the bath for dyeing.

 

 

Oranžna je bila precej močna, pa sem se lotila še malo obdelave barve. Levo štrenico sem namočila v barvilno kopel, ki sem ji dodala nekaj bakrovega acetata. Srednjo štrenico sem namakala z dodatkom žličke sode bikarbone. Desno štrenico sem pustila brez dodatne obdelave.

Barve na sliki so kar precej realne, mogoče so v resnici še malo bolj oranžne, zlasti desna. 

Slika je mogoče malo "nevolnena", a vse to se zdaj suši na balkonu. Pa še lepo paše skupaj  :-)

 

The orange was very intense so I decided to do some postmordanting. I soaked the skein on left in the dyebath to which I added some copper acetate. The skein in the middle was soaked with the addition of a teaspoonful of baking soda. I left the skein on the right side without any postmordanting.

The colours in the picture are pretty real; perhaps there is a bit more orange in real life, especially in the skein on the right.

The picture may be a bit "non-woolly" but this is what is now drying on my balcony. And what's more, they go so well together J