Natural Dyeing
Found 13 products.
Alum mordant for woolOur price: £2.25Or just £1.75 for our members!A small pack of alum mordant - (Aluminium Potassium Sulphate) - from a specialist natural dye supplier.
Cotton threads - pack of tenOur price: £5.00Or just £4.00 for our members!Set of ten 3 g skeins recycled cotton - suitable for embroidery.
Dyer's Mazegill threads - Limited EditionOur price: £40.00Or just £32.00 for our members!These limited edition sets of threads were dyed with a single dyer’s mazegill fungus, sustainably foraged with Kat Goldin of Fodder and Farm.
Mordanted threads, recycled cotton - per pack of 5Our price: £5.95Or just £4.75 for our members!This is for you if you would rather have the mordanting done for you then.
Natural Dye supplies set, Four plyOur price: £18.50Or just £14.50 for our members!This set of six mini skeins, along with a suitable mordant and modifiers, labels and pH indicator strips, is perfect for experimenting with natural dyes. All you need to supply is the plants and a dash of vinegar.
Plant Dyes: Dried Scabious 'Black Knight" FlowersOur price: £14.95Or just £11.95 for our members!Scabious Black Knight is a great dye plant which responds to changing pH - greens and blues, through purples and pinks. The dye is only moderately colour fast - unless modified with iron - so I would not recommend for anything that is going to be exposed to lots of sunshine.
Plant Dyes: Dried Sulphur Cosmos FlowersOur price: £14.95Or just £11.95 for our members!Sulphur cosmos is a bumper dye plant giving warm golden yellows on wool, silk and linen.
Plant Dyes: Dried Sweet Cicely leavesOur price: £14.95Or just £11.95 for our members!Sweet Cicely is an amazing dye plant, completely overlooked in most dye books. It grows in shady damp areas and these leaves were all harvested from under the hedges in my dye garden. It gives a zingy greenish yellow on its own and a darker green with iron.
Plant Dyes: Dried Tagetes flowersOur price: £14.95Or just £11.95 for our members!Tagetes - otherwise known as French marigolds - really pack a punch in the dye pot giving a beautiful golden yellow on their own and an olive green when mixed with iron.
Plant Dyes: Dyer's Chamomile FlowersOur price: £14.95Or just £11.95 for our members!If I had to pick one dye plant to try as a beginner this would be it.
Pre mordanted mini skeins - DK: Set of fiveOur price: £15.00Or just £12.00 for our members!Take the hard work out of botanical dyeing with pre-mordanted skeins of wool.
Undyed 4ply weight cotton - 100g skeinOur price: £9.60Or just £6.20 for our members!Hanks of 4 ply weight 100% pima cotton -
Undyed DK weight cotton 100g hankOur price: £9.60Or just £6.20 for our members!Hanks of 100% pima cotton -