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Wild Colour: How to Grow, Prepare and Use Natural Plant Dyes | Jenny Dean
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Jenny Dean's Wild Colour is the modern classic title on traditional dyeing methods. A celebration of the wealth of natural dyes that can be obtained from over 60 species of plants from common marigolds to rhubarb. Part one introduces the concept of natural dyeing and demonstrates how easy it is to get started. All the techniques are explained with step-by-step sequences and photographs. Colour charts help you to work out which method is best for each dye plant and material.Part two reveals the wide range of plants that you can use for natural dyeing. Colour swatches show the tried and tested range of colours you can extract from each plant.
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Results of my onion skin dye experiments. (Instructions in tagged book.)

Tanisha_A Gosh! How beautiful. You are so creative 3y
Lindy @Tanisha_A 🥰thanks 3y
Leftcoastzen Lovely! 3y
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Lindy @Leftcoastzen Thank you! 3y
Centique So clever! That green looks sublime 😍 3y
Lindy @Centique Thanks! 🥰 3y
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It‘s a dyeing day today. Playing with fibre in my garage.

DivineDiana You are an amazing woman! 💗 5y
Crazeedi Love your work! 5y
LeahBergen Beautiful! 5y
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Louise Lovely! 5y
Lcsmcat Pretty! 5y
SW-T Lovely 😊 5y
batsy So gorgeous! 5y
GrilledCheeseSamurai Very pretty. 🤩 5y
Cathythoughts Love this ♥️ 5y
Lindy @GrilledCheeseSamurai @Cathythoughts Thanks! By the end of the day, this rack was full. And the dye bath hasn‘t yet been exhausted. 5y
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Not getting a lot of reading done but I‘ve been learning a lot about fleece. #knittersofLitsy

Valink Will you be spinning this? I‘ve done very little spinning since I got a dog a few years ago & I miss it! 5y
Lindy @Valink My sister is the spinner in the family. She has offered to teach me sometime soon. 5y
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25 different colours from one dye bath (brazilwood), by using a variety of mordants and modifiers. I had a lot of fun today. The directions for this project are in tagged book.

ValerieAndBooks Wow that‘s gorgeous 😍! What do you plan to do with this? 5y
saresmoore This is so neat, Lindy! 5y
Jennick2004 😱 pretty!!! 5y
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Soubhiville Wow, so pretty! 5y
BookishTrish 😍 5y
Lindy @ValerieAndBooks Each tiny skein is numbered, so I can use these as a reference colour chart for future dyeing projects (which combo of mordant and modifier for a particular colour). 5y
Lindy @saresmoore It‘s like magic seeing these different shades come out of the dye bath. Our whole class found it exciting. 5y
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I will be in this room all day for a natural dyes workshop. I will try to stop myself from wondering if they meant to say material instead of materiel on this sign.

ValerieAndBooks Even though materiel is a word — military materials— you hope there‘s no bombs in there 🤞. Natural dyeing class sounds like fun! 5y
tournevis It's a bilingual sign? 5y
Lindy @tournevis Not intentionally. 5y
Lindy @ValerieAndBooks It‘s been fun so far, and the real colours are about to start, now that we are back from lunch. 😊 5y
tournevis @Lindy Of course not. 5y
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I picked up this because I will be taking a workshop next week based on Jenny Dean‘s method of getting 25 colours from one dye bath. It sounds like magic, doesn‘t it? It‘s amazing what a difference mordants and modifiers can make. An excellent, informative resource book.

jchawkins I need to get my hands on this book! The last time I tried natural dyeing it was a disaster 😂 5y
Lindy @jchawkins I learned in this book that there are many routes to disaster. 😉 5y
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