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Foraging for Homestead Dyeing

Thursday, September 19, 2024 0:05

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One of my fun projects this summer has been doing some natural dyeing. It appeals to both my frugal self and to my creative self. Frugal, because by foraging for dyestuffs, I get them for free. Creative, because there are many ways to get nuances of color variation. And it’s useful! Fabrics and yarn can be dyed of course, as can other natural materials: leather, paper, shells, bones, horns, stones, feathers, hard boiled eggs, reeds for basket making. Even some plastics will take up the dye pigments.

Natural dyeing is time consuming in the sense that it sometimes takes several days to complete a project, but it’s no more labor intensive than canning, cheesemaking, or making bread. It requires specific tasks to be done at specific times, but with long wait times in between.

I have two books for reference:

Wild Color by Jenny Dean
A Dyer’s Garden by Rita Buchanan

Here are this summer’s results. Some of them are what I hoped to get. Others were a surprise! The links in the captions will take you to more photos with specifics about the process for dyeing with each plant.

pokeberries

more experiments with pokeberry dyeing

black eyed-Susan flowers (the rest of the plant is said to give a different color)

more experiments with black-eyed Susans

hardy hibiscus

more hardy hibiscus dyeing experiments

and one more experiment with hardy hibiscus

pear leaves (another color can be obtained from the bark)

more experiments with pear leaf dyeing

So that’s this summer’s experiments. Now I’m thinking ahead to next year. Not only to foraging, but also to planting a dyer’s garden. More to come about that one of these days.

by Leigh at http://www.5acresandadream.com

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