NATURAL DYES
Natural dyes offer incredible colour-producing potential to artists and makers.
Growing natural dye plants combines our love of gardening and our shepherding and allows us to produce our own Manitoba Lopi in a range of colours and hues. We're thrilled to grow more in order to share the joy of natural dyeing with others.
Our dyes are sold in pint-size decorative glass vintage jars.
30g is enough to dye a 100g skein of yarn at 30% weight of fibre. Dyes go much further when used for bundle dyeing.
All our dye plants are grown organically using principles of permaculture and regenerative agriculture. They are picked by hand and dried in the open air without the use of electricity.
Our Natural Dyes
Dyer's Chamomile
produces bright yellows
$10/30g
Dyer's Coreopsis
produces deep oranges with a red hue
$15/30g
Orange Cosmos
produces bright oranges
$10/30g
Dock (seed)
produces reddish-tans
$8/30g
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Black Hollyhocks
produce blues and violets
$10/20g
Indigo (dried leaves)
produces blues
$10/30g
Marigolds (petals)
produce a range of yellows and oranges with a green hue
$15/30g
Black Scabiosa
produces ranges of greens and mauves (with addition of acidity)
$10/30g
Red Onion
produce beautiful olive greens
$10/30g
Tansy
produces yellows
$8/30g
Rudbeckia
produces yellows with a green hue
$10/30g
Weld
produces clear yellows. Often combined with other dyes to create teals and greens.
$10/30g
