Dye garden

The plants you can use to make your own homemade dyes might surprise you. Here are 25 of the best plants you can grow for DIY dye making.

Interested in Growing Your Own Dye Plants? Check Out Our Visual Guide to Dye Garden Layout Ideas, Plus Growing Tips for Specific Dye Plants.

Natural dyeing is an ancient craft that uses plants to create beautiful, sustainable colors for fabrics, yarn, and other materials. Whether you're a seasoned textile artist or just getting started, growing your own dye plants offers a sustainable, hands-on way to bring vibrant colors to your creations. This guide will introduce you to some of the best plants to grow for natural dyeing, giving you a palette of colors that range from soft pastels to deep, rich hues. 1. Indigo (Indigofera ti...

Planning a dye garden can seem like a big undertaking. Join me as I make my plan and share the resources I found helpful. Dyeing wool with plants grown from our own garden is so exciting!

You can grow natural dyes for wool in your back yard garden. As farm folks at heart, it's natural for us to prefer do it yourself projects.

Lottie Delamain, whose garden at the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show highlights the importance of having a closer relationship with our clothes and the way they are produced, talks us through the fascinating world of natural dyes and the plants you can grow to create them

You don't need to be a natural dyer to enjoy a dye garden, although it does help. Christina shares 5 tips learned from a master dyer and dye garden expert.

A natural dye garden will give you eco-friendly, natural dye pigments for textiles, knitting yarns, soap, and more. Add one to your backyard.

Fall is the perfect time to harvest natural dye plants and store for later use. While not all dye plants store well after being cut or gathered, quite a few

There are so many wonderful dye plants to forage in fall. Check out this list to keep your dye pot supplied well after the end of summer.

Have you ever thought about extracting color from plants? If so, you might have even considered cultivating your own dye garden. While a vegetable or herb garden's purpose is to produce food, a dye...

Every year we try to plant a garden, of some sort or other. Some years we’ve had flourishing garden, picking veges and flowers, other years barely anything at all. Some years it’s determined by the floods or the lack of water. I’ve done a lot of hand watering, carrying buckets from the creek to the

Ever wonder why purple is traditionally the color attributed to royalty? Throughout most of history, only the royal families could afford to purchase the indigo (Indigofera tinctoria) dye that produced a deep vibrant bluish purple—in fact, indigo became so valuable that for a time people traded cubes of it as currency. Planting the Dye Garden Many dye pigment sources, also known as dyestuff, may be growing right in your ornamental or vegetable garden. Experiment with some that you may…

All the plants in the garden are used as natural dye plants.

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.

How to Dye Fabric Using Plants. A list of 83 plants {and directions!} on how to dye fabric using plants from your garden.

Hopi Red Dye Amaranth - buy seeds here! A gorgeous annual 4 to 6 feet tall with long, draping flower heads, this amaranth is a stunner in the garden and has so many uses! Find organically grown seeds here! How to grow: Site Selection: Annual, support of mature plants may be necessary. Plant in well

Learn how to naturally dye with dye flowers and how to create deeper color saturations without increasing the amount of dyestuff!

Have you ever thought about making pretty colors using plants in your garden? It's super fun! You can create beautiful natural dyes right at home using flowers, leaves, and fruits. Imagine dyeing fabrics in warm yellows, pinks, and calming greens all from items in your garden! Join us to learn simple ways to get those lovely hues using plants and make your outdoor spot even more inviting and colorful. You'll be amazed at what your garden can do for your creative projects! Start your garden…