Natural dyeing. A beginners guide..............
Gulp....A number of people have asked me questions about this dyeing lark and I thought maybe I ought to do a post (another one I hear you mutter) in a tutorial sort of way. I hesitate because I'm no expert...
Dark Age Colours
Learn How to Make Natural Purple Dye
Learn how to make natural purple dye from plants, fruits, and vegetables including basil, grapes, hibiscus, blackberries,and maple bark.
A rainy day dye day
I have had this thought stuck in my head for awhile, and I finally decided to try it. My thought was a new way to dye yarn. I ...
the MAIWA BLOG
A Quiet Manifesto
Natural dyeing: horse chestnut husks
I promised I'd show you some more of my experiments with natural dyeing. Let me first show you the result and then I'll tell you how I did it. Close to my home there are plenty of horse chestnuts. The fresher the husks are the better. I could actually hear - and feel- them drop…
My stash of hand dyed wool. I have used all sorts of plant dyes to try to recreate colours used in Viking times and onwards. Included are woad, indigo, madder, weld, cochineal and more.
Pflanzenfarben sind eine Macht, die....
..direkt auf die Seele wirken. Das Orginalzitat von Wassily Kandinsky dazu heisst : Farbe ist eine Macht, die direkt auf die Seele wirkt. Immer wieder neu bin ich fasziniert von der herrlichen Ausstrahlung von pflanzengefärbter Wolle. Nun zeigten sich hier letztes Wochenende auch mal einige Sonnenstrahlen, sodass ich die gesammlten Werke des Projekts " Pflanzenfarben 2013" das hier in einem Paket schon eine Weile liegt, mal fotografieren konnte. Angekommen ist diese herrliche Farbkombination…
In the Dye Studio: Horizon Rounds the Bend
Plant dyed yarns
both sport and fingering weight, in the shop, October 2008. A summer and fall's worth of dyeing.
Dyes And Their Uses - Part I
Humans are fascinated by color for years. Dyeing has been discovered in China as early as 2600BC, in the Republic of Georgia dated back in a prehistoric cave to 36000 BC, in India for over 5000 years.