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 or eco printing.
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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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Black Hollyhocks
produce greens and occasionally blues and violets
$10/20g
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Indigo (dried leaves)
produces blues
$10/30g
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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Safflower
​produces yellows and reds
$10/30g​
Weld
produces clear yellows. Often combined with other dyes to create teals and greens.
$10/30g
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Click here for general dyeing information.
