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

Thursday, 6 December 2007

So what about the white oak bark?

I mentioned at the same time as I was trying black oak bark ( yummy bright yellows-fabulous greens with indigo) that I had also been given white oak bark. I soaked it 2 days, heated it in a slow cooker, one day, added fibres and heated again for 1 day. A yucky beige/yellowy/brown/ nondescript colour not worth photograhing was the result. yuk!