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

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I seized a rare sunny day with dryish plants to start harvesting my dye plants  Gensita tinctoria - dyers green weed- this I am drying...
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Moving on with Bananas and the 123 vat.

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 The reason for the title "moving on"  to this blog  is as some of you may know is that recently I was subjected to offensive le...
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Monday, 27 August 2012

Dye Plants in Pots

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Enys ( who for those new to the blog does all the hard work of growing plants) and I are frequently asked if you can grow dye plants in pot...
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Saturday, 11 August 2012

Bees and Butterflies in the Dye Garden

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Hooray for Dye Plants! The number of bees and butterflies have been increasing recently both bumble and honey.  Today for the first t...
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Saturday, 4 August 2012

Malvern Hills Summer School

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Talk about deadline coming up fast! Not only is Helf Gelf very much on the horizon but so is my regular teaching stint at Malvern Hills Sum...
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Friday, 3 August 2012

Another picture for Helfa Gelf

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Rough Sea 4 naturally dyed felt and just  a tiny bit of machine stitch-unusal for me as there is often  a lot in my picures .   Referring...
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Thursday, 2 August 2012

Mounting and Framing Pictures.

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When you have finished a picture you then have to get it framed.  This can make all the difference to a picture.  The wrong coloured mount ...
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