Natural green dye

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.

Explore the natural hue of green tea dye, a sustainable and eco-friendly option that brings a touch of nature's elegance to your fabrics.

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

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

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...

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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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Finding plants that make dye stuff, and being invasive is a double win. Check out Buckthorn berry dye for great eco printing colour!

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…

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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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.

Colors from one of my most abundant dye sources

We went out for a hike near the Squamish estuary a couple days ago, and all along the train track were wild Sheep Sorrel (Rumex acetosella), a common herb/weed. Small maroon flowers bloom in the su…

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…

In this blog post I’ll show you how to dye a scarf with mahonia berries (also known as Oregon grape) with a simple tie dye stripe pattern. These are my local berries – in the early summer, the bushes are laden with hundreds of strands of these little purple jewels. Maybe you have other local...

A couple months back I posted about using black beans as a natural dye for some wool yarn. I was slightly disappointed by the results I achieved as I was expecting to get a blue dye like others hav…