More Rusting

This was a very successful project so we have scheduled another day for rusting fabrics. Today we added laces and vintage hankies to the mix. This is how the morning began.

This shows the vintage hankie from how we began to after I washed it the next day. I loved the results. From there we worked with more vintage pieces, watching as the rust created patterns of its own. This is a truly amazing process. While I focused on vintage fabrics, my partner in play, Sherry, rusted a variety of papers for her work. Here are a few examples of the results.

Hankie with lace trim.

This vintage hankie had a botanical print stamped on it before we began the rusting process.

Here is a piece of  lacework.

Quilters cotton rusted.

Quilters cotton rusted using a copper wire wrap technique. Love the lines!

Again more lines from wrapping copper wire. Can't wait to see this made into an art piece.