I have a question about natural dyes.
Sep. 2nd, 2006 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
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Date: 2006-09-02 07:58 pm (UTC)A list of plant dyes used in the middle ages:
http://www.florilegium.org/files/TEXTILES/dye-list-art.html
A page of links to medieval natural dyes:
http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1225
And another page of links to actual dye recipies (medieval again):
http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1224
These will generally all be dyes available in Europe in the middle ages but you mind find a few things there that you can get hold of.
*grin*