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

Monday, 3 September 2012

Harvesting Colour

I seized a rare sunny day with dryish plants to start harvesting my dye plants

Gensita tinctoria - dyers green weed- this I am drying

Some of my gensita had gone to seed while I was away so I cut some to try and see what it was like to dye with in this state. Some plants lose all their colour when they have gone to seed.

Golden rod Solidago canadensis- this does not seem to dry well so I will try and dye stuff with all over the next few weeks as overdyed in indigo it gives fabulous green.

Look what is coming over.! Harvesting became a race.

Tansy Tanacetum vulgare. I am drying this this year for the first ime to see what it is like dried.

Coreopsis sp. I have both this and the Coreopis tinctoria which has a much smaller flower but which is prolific. Coreposis has been very slow to flower this year as it has been such a bad summer but now it has been getting going.

Race lost! Pouring with rain.!

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