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

Saturday, 28 March 2009

Dyeing the greens

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I haven't had many merino tops for sale on my website recently. There are a number of reasons for this. One is that my of my fibres rea...
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Friday, 20 March 2009

Dye Garden

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Genista Tinctoria yellows A quick whizz around the dye garden this afternoon showed some of the dye plants have started to flourish in th...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Dyeing with extracts

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Posted by Helen I have a lot of workshops coming up all in the next three weeks: Leaves of Gossamer Felt (felting a scarf from 18.5micron ...
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Saturday, 28 February 2009

Rhubarb Root

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Posted by Helen It has been such a long time since I wrote in my blog that you might be justified in thinking that I had vanished from the f...
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Thursday, 22 January 2009

Mordanting

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Posted by Helen I am writing this article on mordanting firstly and mostly for my own benefit and secondly because while there is some r...
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Saturday, 17 January 2009

Friends, Dye Garden, Mordants , Health and textured yarn

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Posted by Helen Where would we be without friends? My friends have always been very important to me but over the last few weeks I have c...
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Friday, 9 January 2009

Teacosy with attitude

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Posted by Helen Many thanks to everyone who has wished me well. I am improving and today took the dog for a short walk for the first time....
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