I have a question about natural dyes.

[conuly]

I want to dye some cloth soon. (And why do people insist on saying fabric? Is there a subtle difference that I don't know about, so cloth just isn't good enough?)

I want to use natural dyes, if possible.

Well, summer's over (don't give me that equinox bit, you know my opinions on that!), it's rainy, and I don't want to wander the streets of NYC looking for plants to use to dye with, so I want to use natural dyes from plants and such that I can buy at a supermarket.

Other than onion skins, coffee, and tea, I mean.

Any ideas? With colors, amabo te.

Comments

[bekijane.livejournal.com]

That's a shame - I've got wild blackberries all round me here. I forget other people are restricted to towns. Sorry.

[conuly]

That's all right. I love blackberries, and am profoundly jealous of you.

(Not as much as I love mulberries, though. I'm considering buying some mulberry seeds and clandestinely scattering them in my favorite "pretty much unlandscaped" parks where there already *are* mulberries.)