Pinned
Plant dyes - all the colours achievable from leaf, flower and root within around a five mile radius. The red hot poker root was a gift from a friend on Skye but that’s only several miles across the water…
Rowena Dugdale
@redrubyrose_
Flora inspired small-batch textiles, plant-dyeing and landscape wanderings
- The first time I used weld flower as a plant dye it astonished me. It is stable, lightfast, washfast and has a depth of colour so intense that my dreams were luminescent. Synthetic yellows can sometimes be a little sickly. Weld has depth.
- Linen colours from plants that I’ve dyed over the last few months 🌿
- Variations of of heather, bog myrtle and indigo on the line this morning. Sea mist lifting and another blue sky day.
- Oak gall, iron and two layers of leaf indigo. This deep forest green will dry much lighter but I’m liking these dark inky tones against the cloudscape today.
- Here’s the dry silk from yesterday’s indigo leaf dye sesh. It’s pretty much my dream colour. From seeds planted at the end of June.
- No ordinary shirt. Allan Brown’s incredible project is complete. He took wild nettle, flax & hemp, which he hand processed, spun, plant-dyed, wove & stitched. The buttons were made from apple branches. "it’s a shirt and it fits and it feels amazing!" instagram.com/hedgerow.coutu…
- Indigo, a myriad of blues. From the classic colour on the right to subtle teals and sea-greens. A mix of dye extracted from fresh leaf and powdered indigo. The greens are over-dyed with bog myrtle and heather. Linen & silk.
- A slow, small harvest of Japanese indigo this year but enough to dye a few metres of silk. The end result is lighter blue but enjoy this fresh teal whilst it’s drying on the line.
- Linen patchwork dyed with hawthorn leaves, gorse, acorn and weld, with printed elements. One from a couple of summers ago.
