Wool - Tribulations of Hand Spinning and Herbal Dyeing

Flowers, buds, leaves and stalks of coreopsis tinctoria will all give a bronze to orange dye on wool mordanted with alum.  Last year, I h...

Meadowsweet is an interesting plant.  The leaves are much like rose leaves, but it comes up in the hedgerow as one straight stem in spring...

Six Japanese Indigo plants are sharing two grow bags in the greenhouse.   Last year , I only got one survivor in the seedtray, though I di...

A good outcome always generates enthusiasm.  After the dramatic result of a  geranium petal dye bath plus contact dye with geranium leaves...

Plant dye baths often seem to have a lot of colour left in them after the intended material has been dyed, even when a second batch of woo...

I had a go at contact dyeing silk last August  and didn't achieve anything like the leaf prints I've seen on other blogs. Cutting...