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Solar Dyeing
| 5th September 2024Kid’s Club 2024 I have had a wonderful summer teaching the Busy Bees Kid’s Club children the amazing colours found in the
Read moreMaya blue pigment
| 29th April 2024MAYA BLUE Maya blue pigment is a plant-based pigment used historically for wall cave paintings by the Mayans. The pigment can be
Read moreCoreopsis Lake Pigment
| 20th April 2024Coreopsis This week I have been demonstrating making a lake pigment using the dried coreopsis flowers from my dye garden collected throughout
Read moreAlder Cone Pigment
| 15th April 2024Alder Cone Lake Pigment Alder cones are high in tannins, which produce an attractive warm caramel colour that I use to make
Read moreMadder Lake Pigment
| 7th April 2024I have been busy this week making a new batch of Madder Lake Pigments. I have included my recipe for you to
Read moreWeld Lake Pigment
| 1st April 2024I have been asked several times recently how to make a lake pigment. The following works for me, although other people may
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Marvelous Marigolds!
| 10th September 2020Marigolds are very easy to grow and a very cheerful plant to have in the garden.
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HOPI BLACK SUNFLOWERS
| 5th August 2020The Hopi Black sunflowers are looking beautiful in the dye garden – all 750 of them!
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Grow your own organic Fertiliser.
| 20th July 2020I reserve an area of the dye garden for a very important and amazing herb – COMFREY. Not the common comfrey. This is BOCKING 14. (Symphytum x Uplandicum).
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Japanese Indigo
| 6th July 2020JAPANESE INDIGO (Polygonum tinctorium)
It is a member of the knotweed family
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