Any natural plant dyer is constantly on the look out for new colours, whether from seeds, nuts, bark, leaves, plants, lichen, fungi, you ...

If you have ever grown Woad for dyeing blue with the leaves, you will know that there are an awful lot of seeds produced as well. In fact...

Some years I wouldn't bother with acorns as a dye material because the English Oaks don't always produce much of a crop. This year has b...

This is 'Crottle' lichen, gathered in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. An ancient traditional dye, also used in years gone by, in the ...

The many shades of green in the countryside right now are sometimes breath taking. There are points along our road where I slow the car d...

Autumn is here, Summer is over, Winter is coming...so whilst there are dye plants to be gathered in the lanes, I am into 'squirrel syndro...

This is what I did with the ivy-leaf dyed wool (see my other post on the dyeing proceedure). This art-yarn also includes wool dyed with ...

I don't want to sound like a stuck record, but the pictures don't do this justice. As I sit here typing this, my back is wet from crouchi...

Coreopsis seeds will germinate quite easily. Here they are in my garden mid-September. If you have watched the video, you will recognise ...

This doesn't exactly qualify as a 'colour of Northern Ireland' although possibly kidney beans could grow here, I don't know. I never grew...

Out on a walk in Co. Down, during the last week of October I noted that the beech leaves were still really green, although turning Autumn...

That's 'Equisetum' in Latin, and it's a native plant in most parts of the world except for Australia, or so I have read. There are other ...

A sunless day, although I think the sun was up there somewhere this afternoon. Not that you would actually know that.. but it was sort of...