{"id":15218,"date":"2026-08-07T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/?p=15218"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:01:21","slug":"glycerin-experiment-with-fig-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/glycerin-experiment-with-fig-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Glycerine x Vijg Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-c4fa01-bdfc4ed697b4e117bc708ea7e8dc4691\">\n.avia-section.av-c4fa01-bdfc4ed697b4e117bc708ea7e8dc4691{\nposition:relative;\n}\n.avia-section.av-c4fa01-bdfc4ed697b4e117bc708ea7e8dc4691 .avia-divider-svg-top svg{\nheight:50px;\nfill:#ffffff;\n}\n.avia-section.av-c4fa01-bdfc4ed697b4e117bc708ea7e8dc4691 .avia-divider-svg-bottom svg{\nheight:50px;\nfill:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-c4fa01-bdfc4ed697b4e117bc708ea7e8dc4691 alternate_color 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><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"html-div xdj266r xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x9f619 xjbqb8w x78zum5 x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw x2fvf9 x1n2onr6 x1plvlek xryxfnj x1c4vz4f x2lah0s xdt5ytf xqjyukv x1qjc9v5 x1oa3qoh x1nhvcw1\">\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x9f619 xjbqb8w x78zum5 x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw x2fvf9 x1n2onr6 x1plvlek xryxfnj x1c4vz4f x2lah0s xdt5ytf xqjyukv x1qjc9v5 x1oa3qoh x1nhvcw1\">\n<p>I had to trimm my Fig Tree, but didn&#8217;t want the leaves to go to waste&#8230; They seemed like perfect candidates to finally test preserving leaves in glycerin.<\/p>\n<p>You can find different recipies, I used a 50\/50 glycerin x water ratio (300ml each, to be precise). Just stack the leaves and make sure the mixture gets inbetween the layers.<\/p>\n<p>PRO tip from <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/crochetcrazyhelen\/\">@crochetcrazyhelen<\/a> &#8211; By taking the stems off, the leaves fill themselves with glycerin due to capillary action!<\/p>\n<p>Next, put the leaves away for 3-4 days in the dark. By putting a similar, weighed down container on top, they stay inside the liquid. The leaves that were too dry and curled up already, I grinded in the blender to make ink of later.<\/p>\n<p>After 3 days, I took the leaves out by letting them drip for a bit and restacked them in paper towels. They are as good as dry after that, but you can gently dab what remains.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves will keep a silky &#8216;shine&#8217; like they are wet,<br \/>\nbut weirdly enough also feel &#8216;sandpapery&#8217; like the original leaf. They didn&#8217;t curl up at all and basicly kept the colour they had, when they went in, so YAY!<\/p>\n<p>I need the leaves to be as flat as possible, so I stored them in the flower press. To be continued \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/glycerine\/\">#glycerin<\/a> <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/preservation\/\">#preservation<\/a> <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/experiment\/\">#experiment<\/a> <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/fig\/\">#fig<\/a> <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/leaves\/\">#leaves<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-4a2zlu2-ad2ea66eb19357d081f6f020fba4fce2 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div'     ><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[531,526,533,530,527],"class_list":["post-15218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-inks-dyes","tag-experiment","tag-fig","tag-glycerin","tag-glycerine","tag-vijg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15235,"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\/revisions\/15235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerneydewilde.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}