Plant dyeing

Natural Dyeing Tutorial. Learn how to use red cabbage to obtain beautiful purples, greens and blues with organic cotton yarn.

NATURAL DYEING | REBECCA DESNOS on Instagram: "Flower hammering is so addictive 🤩🌸🌿 This method is in my book called Plant Dye Zine. ✍🏽 Comment the word “ZINE” to get a link to find out more about my book. The tutorial in Plant Dye Zine was generously written by the incredible @samorn_sanixay. There are bonus steps for treating the fabric after hammering to help the prints last the longest. I used flowers and leaves from my dye garden, but it works with many other plants, e.g. herbs…

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...

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…

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "👉🏼Comment FLOWER & I’ll send you a list of my Favorite flowers for botanical printing 🌼✨ The truth is, there really are no fast tricks when it comes to natural dyeing. It’s a nuanced process that involves a lot of thought and patience. It takes practice to figure out how to get fantastic prints. 👉🏼 That’s why I’m sharing some of my favorite tips with you today! 🩵 Eco printing is a natural dye method that uses pressure and heat to…

Introductory notes: The search for hidden colours, forms and textures is for me the lure of eco dyeing and eco printing, and a form of art. Eco dyeing and eco printing are essentially direct contac…

If you want to use natural dyes in your projects and on your fabrics, you need...dye! Grow your own plant dyes to get dye from flowers.

There are so many wonderful dye plants to forage in fall. Check out this list to keep your dye pot supplied well after the end of summer.