We can now supply some plant material for dyeing. We have Coreopsis, Dyer’s Chamomile, Orange Cosmos, Weld and Rudbeckia. All of these will yield orange – yellow colour. Contact Helen in Bookbinding for more info if you are interested. H.gibbs@brighton.ac.uk
Dock seed heads with paper
Madder, coreopsis, chamomile with textile fibre
July in the dye garden and these hollyhock flowers are ready to harvest for another solar dye jar.
Starting to harvest the flower heads from the dyer’s chamomile to use in solar dye pots
BFK paper in the Chamomile solar dye jar
Young plants of coreopsis, dyers chamomile and cosmos to yield yellow/orange flowers. These will be harvested for solar dye experiments later in the summer.