Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Coffee vs. Tea

The turmeric and cabbage were good experimental dyes. I learned a lot. Now this dye game needed to be ratcheted up.

What's more fun than a duel between two similar dyes?

This group of kids was tasked with coffee and tea. Starbucks graciously donated their used coffee grounds for our experiment, but--holy smokes!!!--we had no idea about the size of the bounty!


The kids had fun dragging and carrying their haul to the car.





Once home, we set to work. It was a match between generic black tea...



...and high-end coffee (a coffee so rich and creamy, so warm and inviting, I would frequently pause to inhale that delicious, robust smell--unlike the wretched cabbage from the day before).



Coffee on the left, tea on the right:


Add the alum mordant...



... and then the fabric...



...and wait overnight to see the results.

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