A busy but fun day at Ditchling with Jenny Dean where we set up 4 dye pots this time: Logwood (Purple), Sappanwood (pink red) and …
A small sample book of paper dyed with elm bark Curiously, two weeks later dyed another elm bark book and got shades of pink – possibly …
All the papers from the cutch and rhubarb root dye pots sewn in to one block
A zesty yellow from garden weld, harvesting early June.
wool and cotton dyed with rhubarb root from my garden: (L-R) no modifier, +alkali, +copper, +iron
paper indigo dye pots buckthorn Ditchling Museum walnut paper samplers coreopsis woad weld cutch rhubarb root solar dye Fustic bark paste resist madder iron/soda dye safflower symplocos sticklac light fastness dyer's chamomile dyers broom golden rod Elm Bark logwood brazilwood Blackberry cochineal
Monthly Archives: June 2018