#acorns — Public Fediverse posts
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Inktober 2025 Day 22: Button. Get yourself an acorn, some button mushrooms, and you can have a grand old time.
#button #inktober #Inktober2025 #InkArt #PenAndInk #drawing #AmDrawing #MakingArt #MakeGoodArt #art #creativity #cartooning #AIisNotArt #buttonMushrooms #acorns #mouse #mice #micePlaying
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How to Make #NaturalDyes in Every Color: A Step-by-Step Guide
Grace Waters - December 31, 2023
Excerpt: "Which Ingredients Will Make Which Colors?
You can use practically any plant, produce or spice to make a natural dye. Many of those ingredients are available year-round. Here’s how to make natural dyes with every color under the rainbow.
Red
Produce like raspberries, cherries, cranberries, and pokeberries will make rich dyes. You can also use hibiscus, rose, amaranth, and hollyhock plants. Most deeply red flower petals will produce saturated pigments. Beetroots will make a pink dye that is incredibly vibrant.
Orange
The flower calendula makes for a fantastic natural orange dye. To get that classic, bright color, use carrots or orange peels. Surprisingly, pomegranates can also produce deep orange hues.
Yellow
Tumeric is incredibly vibrant and easily stains. Ginger is another good spice, but it isn’t as bright. Flowers like goldenrod, yarrow, black-eyed Susan, and dandelions produce varying shades of yellow. You can also use lemon peels.
Green
You can use almost any plant’s stems and leaves to make a vibrant green color. Leafy greens like spinach also work well. If you want a very bright shade, you may have to add some blue.
Indigo
Blue flowers like bachelor buttons and Russian sage will create unique, rich hues. Of course, you can also use blueberries for a very dark dye. Red cabbage makes a classic, bright purple color. If you want something more saturated and subtle, use blackberries.
Brown
Red onion skin and #acorns can make light brown or tan dyes. If you want something darker, use #BlackWalnuts or used coffee beans."
Read more:
https://environment.co/how-to-make-natural-dyes/#SolarPunkSunday #DIY #FiberArts #NaturalDyes #Dyes #Wildflowers #PlantDyes
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#Dyeing with Acorns and Walnuts: From Forest to Fiber
"Natural dyeing with acorns and walnuts produces lovely tans, browns, grays, and blacks. Join me as I take you through the process. My property is filled with oak trees, so acorns are not hard for me to find. They are one of the first natural dyes I learned to extract.
"Walnuts produce a very similar dye to acorns, when pigment is extracted from the green outer hull. Both nuts create brown, with acorns leaning more tan, and walnuts leaning more red, in my experience. In this project, I combined acorns and walnuts, both leftover from previous dye pots. These nuts contain a lot of pigment! I used leftovers, but you can get beautiful results with freshly foraged nuts."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6NJFUth0Ko
#SolarPunkSunday #NaturalDyes #DIY #Foraging #Acorns #Walnuts
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Squirrel Book Back Cover
I have one last thing to share on this book project. The back cover is a drawing of squirrel tracks in the snow with a couple of acorns. The back cover text and barcode go in the blank areas.
Source: https://karenbjones.com/2023/03/22/squirrel-book-back-cover/
#acorns #artsample #cartoon #childrensillustration #color #coverart #drawing #illustration #jeanmaurer #karenbjones #kidlitart #snow #squirrelprints
