Deciding on the background

I spent an hour or so this morning doing a couple of practise pieces using my cheap textile inks. The piece on the right is done on white fine cotton with the textile inks. The piece on the left Helen and I did this afternoon using her more expensive dyes, on a 100% cotton sheet which we intend using for the background. It has way more colour intensity but we don't know if we need that intensity for the background.

We also played with the leftover inks and did this: