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Organic Cotton washcloth sets and towels!

I make a lovely washcloth set using the organic cotton fabric and rolled hems.  They are approximately 12 x 12.

Once used they soften and feel wonderful  I've included 3 in the handmade paper bag with or without a bar of  mild moisturizing handmade soap.  There are 2 scents in the smaller bars right now, a light sandlewood and light lavendar scent.  You can see a detail of some of the washcloths.  I usually like to put 3 different types into the set a plain pebble or herringbone, waffle weave and a chenille.  These are all organic cotton.

You can choose between the all natural or brown or a combination of both!

I have an 18x24 inch towel offered also.  You can specify the type of fabric and if you'd like the brown hemming.

These are available on my website http://chamomileconnection.com/gifts-and-tools.html 

or my Etsy store https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChamomileConnection

Send a note if you want something not listed in the shopping cart.  These are organic cotton towels with the ruffle edge.  

Both of these are lovely to use or give as a gift.

I will take custom orders and adjust shipping cost for your area.

October Botanical "Eco" Print Scarves

It's been so long since I've posted.   Just an awful lot happening in life isn't there?  Here are some of the recently finished scarves I've been working on.

The first is using an iron to change the colors on the courser silk from Cambodia

This is on Flat Silk Scarves

Purple carrot, Prickly Pear Cactus fruit "tunas", onion skins and leaves

I used copper to get the blue colors.  You can see the 3 leafed sumac and onion skins here

these are some Japanese Maple leaves

New Dye Colors

Botancial Dyes again

The hollyhock silk scarf changed with washing!  I'll need to check out the ph of the Bronner's soap!

Here is what happened with the textured silk scarf/shawl that I redyed with sunflowers, marigolds, some hollyhocks and the daylilies can still be seen a little as blue.  I used alum to set the color with this one.

Will had some molded hollyhocks so I boiled them up and got the brown at the bottom of the scarf....this is where they dye bath penetrated.  I think it would have looked nice all the way through.  You can see where the strings were that I tied it to the pvc pipe....they resisted as did some of the willow leaves.

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