Plant Dye Recipe and Tutorial: How to Make a Jewelweed Dye
How to make a plant dye with jewelweed in an easy to follow natural dye tutorial.
The Healing Colors of Plant Dyes
No matter where you live in the world we are all blessed with an abundance of local, beautiful, and vibrant dye plants. Whether they are growing wild or cultivated in gardens even the casual natural dyer knows that there are…
Experiments with Nettle Dye, Take Two
Last year I posted a recipe for making dye with Stinging Nettles. to check out that post click here. The dye bath from last year turned out to be a lovely, yet light color. I had harvested in the late spring once the nettles…
Indigo Fever: Japanese Indigo Dye Photos from Summer 2013
As I prepare for the new growing seasons, sow my natural dye seeds and research recipes it seems like the perfect time to share photos from my experiments with Japanese Indigo from last summer. It was my first time growing…
How to plan a natural dye garden
A FIRST TIME GARDENER The title says it all. I realized as I set out to plan and create a natural dye garden this winter that I have never successfully grown a plant in my entire life other than the…