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NATURAL DYES

Natural dyes offer incredible colour-producing potential to artists and makers.

Growing natural dye plants combines our love of gardening and allows us to create our own  Manitoba Lopi in a range of colours and hues.

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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.

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Our Natural Dyes

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Dyer's Chamomile

produces bright yellows

$10/30g

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Dyer's Coreopsis

produces deep oranges with a red hue

$15/30g

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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

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Indigo (dried leaves)

produces blues

$10/30g

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Marigolds (petals)

produce a range of yellows and oranges with a green hue

$15/30g

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Black Scabiosa

produces ranges of greens and mauves (with addition of acidity)

$10/30g

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Red Onion

produce beautiful olive greens

$10/30g

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Tansy

produces yellows

$8/30g

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Rudbeckia

produces yellows with a green hue

$10/30g

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Weld

produces clear yellows. Often combined with other dyes to create teals and greens.

$10/30g

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