Coastal Colours - dye wool with seaweed!
Any natural plant dyer is constantly on the look out for new colours, whether from seeds, nuts, bark, leaves, plants, lichen, fungi, you...
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Sarah Matthess
- Jul 12, 2019
- 4 min
Dyeing with Woad Seed
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Nov 8, 2017
- 4 min
Acorn Dyeing
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
Lichen Dyeing
This is 'Crottle' lichen, gathered in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. An ancient traditional dye, also used in years gone by, in the...
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Sarah Matthess
- May 20, 2016
- 4 min
Green to Dye For - Nettles
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Oct 2, 2015
- 3 min
Never Say Dye
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Dec 22, 2014
- 1 min
Art Yarn - Ivy Leaves
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Dec 11, 2014
- 2 min
Autumn Shades Art-Yarn
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Dec 4, 2014
- 2 min
Natural Dyeing - Coreopsis
Coreopsis seeds will germinate quite easily. Here they are in my garden mid-September. If you have watched the video, you will recognise...
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Sarah Matthess
- Nov 29, 2014
- 2 min
Natural Dyeing - Kidney Beans
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Nov 28, 2014
- 1 min
Natural Dyeing - Beech Leaves
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Nov 24, 2014
- 2 min
Natural Dyeing - Horsetail
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...
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Sarah Matthess
- Nov 20, 2014
- 3 min
Natural Dyeing - Ivy Leaves
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...
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