#Undertale #creativetoot #mastoart #witchcraft
Well, the first prototype of my handmade Delta Rune hanging is done, and tacked up behind my (temporary) altar that has nothing on it! Well, maybe now that the sigil of my patron goddess is before me at all times when I'm on my computer, I will start doing more practical witchcraft at that altar. :] https://witches.town/media/_Pd_8RuFjtULFglp-H8 https://witches.town/media/yGhzrcBVy1gZEGGUg_4
Some photographs. The beeswax needed to dry overnight, outside (I'm the only one in the household who enjoys the smell of turpentine) before I judged it was hard enough. Cooked the cloth for 30 min at middling heat (not enough even to simmer) with ¼ cup Rit liquid purple dye and ½ cup pickling salt in the bath. Then rinsed, laundered (hot-cold, permanent press) and tumble-dried (permanent press). The dye did fade somewhat; also the rest of the beeswax-turpentine solution congealed on standing :/ https://witches.town/media/USLCvQpxYy-AWRQH0qw https://witches.town/media/3ePsRBC97yukuG5j7KE https://witches.town/media/cwRMLAG2OPllniLlv5M
I am judging this experiment a modest success. There was some bleed-through, probably where I'd not applied enough wax resist, and the cheapass Rit dye didn't "take" very well, but otherwise the method worked basically the way I wanted. next experiments will be with different dyeing methods (I have some gentian violet that I intend to try using) and also I want to see if liquid waxes (for floors or cars or whatnot) could be used directly to make the wax-resist mask.
#creativetoot also I want to see if I can put the escutcheon around the Delta Rune symbols using a different dyeing method.