Plant based dyes

More medieval dyes for y'all!

Slow Lane Studio forages, cultivates and uses plants to create colour for textiles, paper, printmaking and pigments.

Meeting Charlotte Lawson Johnston at her new Cotswold studio, Christabel Chubb learns why fabrics made using sustainable fibres and plant-based dyes are the natural way forwards

Grow your own natural dyes! Discover the best flowers for creating stunning plant-based colors for fabric, crafts, and eco-friendly projects.

(and what NOT to use)In this blog you will learn how to properly mordant cellulose fabrics, and how to use ingredients from your kitchen to dye them.The most eco-concious way to use kitchen materials is by collecting them and drying or freezing them until you are ready to use them. Use produce nets for drying (or it will start creating mold and fruit flies) or Ziploc bags for freezer storage. More about good 'kitchen dyers' below.What will you need?Dyeing in the kitchen requires a few basic…

We have been busy expanding our colour palette using only natural plant and mineral dyes. We have added indigo blue to our colours and have started growing our own at our test farm. Madder root which produces reds, oranges and pinks grows wild here in Jordan. Yellows are easy to find. Our favourites come from pomegranate rind, olive leaves, camomile flowers and ochre earth. And blacks are made by adding iron to pomegranate, tea or eucalyptus bark. Natural dyes produce different colours on…

Discover the process of dyeing with this Natural Dye Pulling (Tie Dyeing) DIY. This project is great to do with kids and is part of our Kids Lab series.