Dye garden ideas

How to turn plants like lavender, nettles, goldenrod, and elderberries into natural dyes for fabrics like cotton, linen plus wool and silk. Use this starter guide to begin creating botanical dyes from your garden.

Have you ever thought about extracting color from plants? If so, you might have even considered cultivating your own dye garden. While a vegetable or herb garden's purpose is to produce food, a dye...

In a town crackling with talented creatives of all types, Amanda de Beaufort stands out. Professionally known as Dyekween, Amanda is the textiles artist be

Here is a quick little growing guide for this great plant! Interested in more? Click HERE to learn about an in-person workshop happening in Minnesota April 27th! Japanese Indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) - Click for seeds! A member of the knotweed family, this easy to grow annual plant has long been a part of Japanese culture

Planning a dye garden can seem like a big undertaking. Join me as I make my plan and share the resources I found helpful. Dyeing wool with plants grown from our own garden is so exciting!

These seven medicinal herbs also benefit your natural dye garden. Grow your natural dye with these medicinal herbs.

The plants you can use to make your own homemade dyes might surprise you. Here are 25 of the best plants you can grow for DIY dye making.

Lottie Delamain, whose garden at the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show highlights the importance of having a closer relationship with our clothes and the way they are produced, talks us through the fascinating world of natural dyes and the plants you can grow to create them

You don't need to be a natural dyer to enjoy a dye garden, although it does help. Christina shares 5 tips learned from a master dyer and dye garden expert.

In this blog post I’ll show you how to quickly and simply extract dye from coreopsis flowers using hot water. This makes a beautiful dye that can be used like watercolour paint. Then we’ll play with lemon juice and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) to make a wider range of colours. The paint only takes...