Art, Color and Chemistry
Students in Professor Laura Muller's "Art, Color and Chemistry" class gave a poster session in December presenting the quilts they hand-dyed and stitched during the fall 2003 semester. Some of the quilts will be donated to ABC Quilts, a national organization that provides quilts to babies in hospitals and foster care.
Jessica Broomhead '04 explains how her group used logwood leaf dye for the purple hues, Osage orange for the greens, and six different fabrics to create this tree-of-life quilt stitched together by Sarah Young '05.
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Indigo was one of the natural dyes used in making this rare creature--a three-dimensional quilted shark.
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For this tree quilt, the students experimented with six different fabrics and used alum and tin as mordants (reagents that bind the dye to the material).
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This bright sunburst derives its yellow color from the bark of the tropical fustic tree, native to the West Indies and South America.
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