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, 19 May 2011

Weld or is it a triffid?

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Its been growing in the greenhouse till Enys's long suffering DH turfed it out to make way for the peppers. It has started to seed so should be bung full of dye. I am going to have one very big dye bath!

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jane d21 May 2011 at 18:10
Lovely - though I rather wish it were a triffid....
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Woolly Bits22 May 2011 at 01:31
well, just be careful that it isn't a triffid, in case it bites:))I just had a lucky find - I "inherited" a bag full of dyestuff, some cochineal, brazilwood, logwood, madder - and a bag full of weld, too:)) enough to fill my dye pots for some time to come....
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Helen23 May 2011 at 22:23
Hi Thanks for the tip about drying weld and now it is drying in the studio it does not look so much like a Triffid. Oh your "inheritance" sounds fabulous Bettina I hope you enjoy dyeing with it.
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