Plant dyeing

Natural Dyeing Tutorial. Learn how to use red cabbage to obtain beautiful purples, greens and blues with organic cotton yarn.

This post is an overview of natural dye plants and the color spectrum you can achieve. If you are interested in specific dye plants or colorways, you can explore each topic in more detailed blog posts which are linked below. This is not a complete list by any means. Rather, it contains all the natural dye plants I have used so far and I will gradually add to it in the future. Hopefully you find this post useful as a reference list.

Plant Dye Journal — Lori Seidemann

Learn what to use to naturally dye fibers, fabrics and yarns with this list of natural dye yielding plants. Flowers, leaves, barks, roots, bugs and kitchen scraps that make beautiful colors. Dye material options, tutorials and information to get started with your natural dyeing adventures.

This summer I’ve made dyes from a few flowers from my garden. In this blog post, I’ll share my dye notes and colour swatches for three colours of buddleja (butterfly bush), yarrow and goldenrod flowers. I used cellulose fabric for all of the swatches — organic cotton, bamboo viscose and linen. Aluminium dye pots were...

Tea is rich with tannin (good for gripping onto fabric), is inexpensive, and attaches well to cotton and linen. It typically gives you a light brown color if you don’t use any color modifiers. You can use an iron modifier on the fabric after you dye it with the tea, which will shift your colors to grey, and increase our fabric’s color- and lightfastness. At the iron sulfate stage, you will be able to experiment with different dipping and folding techniques to create patterns on your fabric.

Take a look at these 6 surprising Spring dye plants & see what colours they give you. Start your natural dye journey today.

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