Dried Birch Leaves

The birch trees are still slumbering, and show no signs yet of new Spring growth, so yesterday I dyed a set of four skeins with the juice obtained from dried birch leaves. It will be interesting to see how this set compares with one dyed with the liquor distilled from fresh green birch leaves. From the left, the skeins were mordanted with alum, copper, alum plus tin and alum plus iron.