Natural green dye

Natural Dyes to make Green. Plants that can produce a natural green dye that you can use on fabrics and yarn

How to make natural green dye using mate. step by step tutorial on how to get intense natural green dye using mate and iron water.

Discover the beauty of green tea dyeing! A natural, eco-friendly method for creating unique fabric tones. #NaturalDye #EcoCrafting #DIYFabric

Here we are in the final month of this tumultuous year. When I started creating these monthly photo blogs at the beginning of the year I imagined it filled with photos of summer camp fun and natural dye workshops . It was to be partly a record of the animals and seasonal changes in the forest, an

Spinach as dye? You better believe it, but not just spinach. You can also make dye from orange peels, lemon ends, even the outer leaves of a cabbage. These dyes are easy, eco-friendly, and really cheap to produce. Click this article to learn how to make spinach dye.

This summer I’ve made dyes from a few flowers from my garden. In this blog post, I’ll share my dye notes and colour swatches for three colours of buddleja (butterfly bush), yarrow and goldenrod flowers. I used cellulose fabric for all of the swatches — organic cotton, bamboo viscose and linen. Aluminium dye pots were...

Dyeing green with logwood and weld

In this blog post I’ll share with you my first experiment with fresh leaf indigo dyeing on cellulose fibres. I’m in love with this pretty shade of teal! I didn’t know if it would work on cellulose as I’ve read that it’s best on protein fibres, but I’m thrilled with the results. I’ve been growing...

NATURAL DYEING | REBECCA DESNOS on Instagram: "Dyeing with nettles 🌿 Maybe a weed to some people, but an incredibly useful herb to the rest of us 😍 Nettles not only make delicious and nourishing tea, but they produce beautiful grey/green shades in the dye pot too. You’ve probably heard me talk about this before, but my number one tip for pretty much all dye plants is to allow them to soak in the dye for longer than you might first think. The colour will continue to change and darken as it…

First, some pics of my Artist Book “Botanica: New World Scroll” referred to in my previouscpost. The tutorial I published here some minutes ago gives instructions for making a book like…

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Colors from one of my most abundant dye sources

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In which I describe my attempts at naturally dyeing yarn with three different types of dock found growing locally in West Sussex in May

St. Patrick's Day is a big holiday for our family--and a very fun holiday for the kids. While we love all of the fun, cooking for kids ...

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My husband returned from the grocery store carrying an overstuffed bag in each arm, his face obscured by a large spray of green foliage. “Check out these carrots!” he announced while pl…