> I've been invited to a vegetable-peeling next Tuesday. (For the corned-beef
> dinner on Wednesday.) This would be a good chance to collect a bunch of
> onion skins. I've tried them plain, with vinegar (about the same as plain),
> with iron, pickling alum, baking soda, and various combinations.
>
> Is there a mordant that will give me a startling result?
I don't know about startling, but I really like onion skins for
the twofold yellow I get from them with regular dyeing alum and tartaric
acid; the first bath is deep 'old gold' sort of color and later baths
are a more clear yellow. Over dyeing the first batches with indigo gives
more olive greens while later ones are a little brighter greens.
Mary in Arizona,
where the desert is blooming more than usual from the recent rains
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