1. a natural dyeing mess bench monday, 2. Natural Dyes Wild Card Art Batts #2, 3. Blush pink from avocado skins, 4. overdyeing, 5. the blue, 6. Sandstone No. 3 Detail, 7. dyeing with onion skins again, 8. Pokeberry dye, 9. Natural dyeing - avocado skins, 10. the ripple of the stitch, 11. madder sampler, 12. drying
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This Monday I've put together a natural dyes mosaic, featuring dyed fabrics and fibres, a variety of dyestuffs..... Many thanks to my dye friends for sharing their photographs via Flickr. A few years ago I was uncertain if there were many people interested in natural dyes, but that is clearly not so. There are many of us experimenting, with jars catching the sun on kitchen windowsills, little snippets of fabric soaking in strange concoctions. Buckets catching rain and berries and leaves for future 'experiments'..... It is heartening to know others share my interest in the beautiful natural colours that may be obtained from simple dye methods..... age old recipes can be 'tinkered with', adapted according to how you wish to dye, what you want to dye and there's still a lot to learn.....
This week I hope to catch up with a little more dyeing myself.... I have fabrics that need to be 'walnutted', and yarn that might get blackberried, in the old fashioned way of things......
I am going to take some days off this week, from my usual several hours of working on things for sale etc.... I have had a headache that won't shift and I think I just need a break. So forgive me for being a little quiet this week. I'll be back soon with news of autumn updates and more......
until then have a good, creative, sunny week x
11 comments:
thank you so much Cathy for including me in this mosaic. You know you're part responsible for me starting to dye with plants ! :D
sorry about the headache, it's very unpleasant to say the least. You deserve to take some days to yourself & let that pain go out of your head.
take good care, my friend. I really can't wait to see your autumn goodies !! xoxo
Your mosaic colors are beautiful together!
Hope you feel better, and have a great week.
Feel better soon.
thank you x
Oh so lovely mosaic! I love natural dyes...not only they produce beautiful colours but they are eco-friendly too!
Take care and enjoy your rest! :)
Thank you for including mine Cathy. A very interesting mosaic indeed. I have more dyes to post soon ... lovely yellows :o)
ps. Hope that having a little break makes you feel better in every way, take care x
Such wonderful finds! Your blog is so beautiful! I can't wait to see what you post next. I hope you feel better!
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thank you kindly - I hope to be back 'properly' with a new blog post quite soon x
Great mosaic, wonderful colours !!
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