Tag Archives: natural dyes

Dye plants, Dyestuffs and natural fibres

Image 5 November 2020 gs

From an album on trades in Kashmir 1850-1860, British Library

BREAD making – Kashmir 1850
27 November 2021 gs
Vida’s painting of a fantastical creature in the Slovenia landscape. More on … Vida’s work and life provided by her family.

Scarecrow
16 October 2021 gs
Here is another selection of handmade paper and a pot made from grass pea by Caroline Hyde-Brown. See how she does it at Repurposing grass pea …

More paper and pots from grass pea
1 October 2021 gs
Field scabious flowers in the Living Field garden’s meadow for several months over summer and early autumn.

Recollections of the Meadow
11 July 2021 gs
Thanks to K Owen for this interpretation of the panel of interlacing on the front of the Ulbster Stone, a Pictish cross-slab in Caithness. More to follow ….

Interlacing on the Pictish Ulbster Stone
30 May 2021 gs