Growing Colour Tyfu Lliw

This is both about growing colour quite literally as plants in my garden and also about using them. I dye fibres with natural dyes and use them to "paint" with. This is how I make my landscapes , mostly of the North Wales countryside Mae Tyfu Lliw yn enw addas iawn i'r 'blog' yma. Yr wyf yn cael hwyl yn tyfu bob math o flodau i Helen i'w defnyddio. Mae hi yn creu lluniau bendigedig, mae y lliwiau yn hollol naturiol, ac felly'n gweithio'n dda iawn yn rhoi lliw credadwy o'r wlad o'm cwmpas

Tuesday 22 December 2009

Some dyeing after all

Just to show that I am dyeing here is some of my latest stuff.
At the moment I am playing around with dyeing merino pre flets-a lovely soft flexible needle felt that has all sorts of possibilities. It takes the dye beautifully. I have tried it with extract dyes and also a logwood bath which is really violet although it looks blue in the picture.
Underneath that is a Christmas present, 16 micron merino, some tussah silk and silk caps also dyed with extract dyes, logwood, cutch waste and chaste tree, while finally on the bobbin is some of Lesley Prior's kid mohair from her Devon farm being spun for a scarf for DH who may get it in the New Year rather than Christmas. I am going to ply it with indigo dyed tussah silk.

8 comments:

Jasmine22 December 2009 at 14:38
Beautiful!
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Helen22 December 2009 at 17:47
thankyou
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Sweetpea22 December 2009 at 19:21
Oh how I love the subtleties of these colors, just GORGEOUS!

Your blog is wonderful. I am very interested to learn about using plants to make dyes, so I really appreciate all the information - and great photos - you have posted here... I can tell you are quite taken with it!
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Helen22 December 2009 at 22:28
Thank you Sweatpea I am glad you like the blog and it is so nice to have others appreciate Natrual dyes
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Leena23 December 2009 at 21:16
Helen, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I love the blues in the last picture:)
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Woolly Bits23 December 2009 at 22:33
Helen, the prefelt has great colours. what are you doing with this to finish? I haven't had much time for dyeing lately, but I'll have to do some after christmas - for other gifts! have a lovely christmas and a good (if cold?) start into 2010!
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Ladka23 December 2009 at 23:46
Oh, I love the colours on the prefelts!
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year - with a better health :-)
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Dorothy26 December 2009 at 18:35
The wealth of colour here is a treat, whilst snow is pretty and romantic for Christmas, we've spent the past week in a rather colour-less world. I especially like the look of the indigo dyed tussah silk.
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