I
have experimenting with vegetable colours. I tried beetroot
peels, coffee grounds, onion skins, green matter from lantana bushes,
turmeric and also marigold flowers.
Some
of them came out quite pale because of various reasons. But the
turmeric and marigold flowers were brilliant. The beetroot
peels were a lovely mauve pink, the onion skin a beautiful warm
brown, and the coffee grounds gave a pale brown.
It
does take a lot of time and fuel, what with boiling the cloth with
vinegar or salt for an hour, and then boiling the vegetable matter
for hours together to get a concentrated color.
But
it was fun, and perhaps I will try it again.
