Botanical Printing

Well...I'm learning.  I think I need to process them longer for better color and I have a few things to learn.  These are silk scarves using the "black" or dark pink hollyhocks and I tried using willow leaves.  The hollyhocks leave a lot of color! The yellow is the pollen from the center of the flower.  The willow leaves really didn't do anything...need to learn how to get them to release their color.

Here are the bundles wrapped and in the steamer