Month: March 2019
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Pink
There has been a bit of a pink theme this month. Having eaten my way through a lot of avocados lately I saved the stones and skins for dyeing. I froze the peel and stones separately, scrubbing them clean and chopping them up before they went into the freezer. In total I had 365g of
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Cornus Midwinter Fire
The Cornus needed pruning and a quick Google search says that Dogwoods give a blue dye.
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Natural dyeing with Eucalyptus bark
Before I played with wool I grew plants for a living, there were a lot of hardy exotics in my life and I still occasionally spend the odd morning at the nursery talking about plant production and happened to notice long strands of bark hanging from the eucalyptuses.
