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Extracting natural blue pigment from the leaves of the Woad plant. The pigment has traditionally been used to dye wool but it can also be used in naturally colouring soap. ** Latin name = Isatis Tinctoria ** French name = pastel des teinturiers **
Homemade Easter Egg Dyes & a Le Creuset Giveaway! Recipes to make Cassis, Caribbean and Soleil Eggs!
30 plants that you can grow in your garden to use as natural dye! By Nikki Tiley (Author of The Bulb-o-licious Garden)
Dyes from plants. Excerpts from 'Harvesting Color' by Rebecca Burgess. Photographs by Paige Green
Beautiful texture made by eucalyptus seeds.
The class I took from Al-Jania at Gulf Wars 2014 included pokeberry. I got to bring home a half gallon jar of dye bath from the class. :) [ Pokeberry Dye Inspiration: from Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess ]
Thinking about using the crazy mushrooms that popped up in my flower pot for this. I think they are "Magic Mushrooms". Mushrooms as dyes
a Natural Blue Pigment - Lovely Greens Garden Living and Making
fern dye bath - Dye fabric with ferns! Soak ferns in boiling water, strain, dye!
tansy dye, wool with alum mordant
dye journal (photo only)
Before industrialization standardized and “chemicalized” the world of dyes, our agrarian ancestors practiced the art of dying yarn.
natural dyes (left top down) madder root, weld chopped stems, cochineal, logwood chips, and (right) dyed wool
Black walnut. via http://paigegreen.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/natural-dyes-with-mimi-and-california-country-magazine/
dyed with fresh woad leaves
By Nikki Tiley (Author of The Bulb-o-licious Garden) In today’s world, we grow edible plants so we can eat healthier, but very few people think of growing plants to dye with.