Mordant work and a Little Dye Work

I am preparing some fabric with a mordant in order to do some ecobundling.  This time I am doing a strong mordant of soy milk.  I  have read that it is a good protein source to open cotton fibers.  So I had to go to the grocery store anyway (and I forgot dog yogurt so I will have to go again anyway) and I bought soy milk.

Remember my find from the Purple Cow that included the fish duvet?

I dis-assembled the duvet cover and separated the back side into strips about 18 inches wide.  I put a one strip into the soy milk bath.






I took another strip and did a shibori wrap.


 I soak my fabric in plain water but mix my dye with some soda ash.



Mental note:  buy more soda ash..........



Now I am washing it out in my super heated hot water.  This is what I bought the machine for!






 



Of course, I didn't wear gloves...........