Wooly palaver

[zombiecazz]

Another great dye is tumeric. Hot water and some vinegar ad the tumeric and the fleece heat through and then leave to go completely cold.
This is what you get.
neeps crafting

[snapdragon]

Wow thats glorious <I'm off to rummage in the spice shelf >

I'm saving onion skins as they say you can get a nice gold-brown from them

[frozenthunderbolt]

Awsome colour!

Onion skins are great aswell snapdragon - experiment with different skins (different kinds of onions) and i tryed adding various things to change the colour - alkali like baking SODA make it more yellowish fawn, acids like vinegar tend to make it more orange/golden, and im not sure if the salt i added did anything lol

The one warning i give for onion skins is that in my experience it is not light fast and will fade a bit *shrugs* thems the breaks lol
Still a fun and natural mordantless dye

[SueSteve]

Sounds like you are having fun.
A few years ago I belonged to a living history group, different members did different crafts etc. but I remember we did some dyeing, we collected dandelions, elderberry and bark (may have been silver birch?).

[snapdragon]

Sounds like you are having fun.
A few years ago I belonged to a living history group, different members did different crafts etc. but I remember we did some dyeing, we collected dandelions, elderberry and bark (may have been silver birch?).

I missed the elderberries - but shall try them next year

I've been making felted beads winding bits of non spinnable wool round my fingers to make doughnut sort of shapes, threading them on an old stocking, another stocking over the top and seperated with tiny elastic bands, and chuck them in the wash with whatever was next to go in
voila - beads