ORGANIC WHOLE HAWTHORN BERRIES ~ currently available at wholesale price
ORGANIC HAWTHORN BERRIES ~ Dye Colour original beige/yellow - with iron: silver grey, grey green
Origin: Hungary
Hawthorn berries are rich in tannin and can be used to dye wool and silk (careful with iron, if pure silk) silver grey, grey and grey green. The colour palette is soft and earthy as you can see in the yarn pictures attached. Both yarns have been dyed with hawthorn.
Colourfastness: Poor - medium
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Basic recipe:
10% Alum
100% Hawthorn
1 -3% iron
Mordant yarn with 10% Alum either hot at 85 degrees celcius (185F) for one hour, or cold for 12h-24hrs.
Extract Hawthorn for 1-2 hours at 85 degrees celcius (185F). Strain dye.
Add mordanted yarn to dye liquor and leave for 1h at 85degrees/185F.
Add Iron to modify the colour, if you wish. The more iron you add the greener the colour. Aerate, between dips. Don't leave the yarn/fibre/fabric in the iron bath for long, about 5-10min is enough.
Rinse and hang to dry.
RESEDA (WELD) FOR WOOL & SILK ~ NATURAL DYE KIT
RESEDA (WELD) NATURAL DYEING KIT FOR WOOL AND SILK FIBRES ~ This Kit contains everything you need to dye 100-300g of Yarn/Fibre/Fabric.
DYE COLOURS: Yellow & Green when overdyed with Indigo
Most natural dyes aren't immediately exhausted and you can continue dyeing several more pieces. Each new dip will result in a paler colour.
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Don't want a Kit, but just the recipe? Click here for a downloadable PDF!
SUITABILITY
Over the past year, I have noticed that many crafters use natural dye kits to dye Cotton, linen and other plant based fibres. Unknown to them, the mordanting instructions used for Wool or Silk are unsuitable for plant based fibres and often will result in pale, short lasting colours.
We have remedied that with our collection of ever growing dye kits and stand alone dye recipes. You can now choose the dye kit according to your fibre need ~ protein (wool & other animal fibres) or plant based fibres (linen, hemp, cotton)
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The DYE Kit makes a lovely present too - well packaged in recyclable cardboard, the dyes come in resealable stand up bags and the recipe is printed on strong booklet paper, which can be reused again and again.
What you will receive in this Kit:
Full and reusable Dyeing instructions
How to care for your plant dyed things care card
100g Weld, 12g Soda Ash, 30g Alum ~ all packaged in resealable stand up bags
RHUBARB FOR COTTON & LINEN ~ NATURAL DYE KIT
RHUBARB NATURAL DYEING KIT FOR PLANT FIBRES ~ This Kit contains everything you need to dye 100-300g of Yarn/Fibre/Fabric.
DYE COLOURS: Golden Dark Yellows, Beige
Most natural dyes aren't immediately exhausted and you can continue dyeing several more pieces. Each new dip will result in a paler colour.
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Don't want a Kit, but just the recipe? Click here for a downloadable PDF!
SUITABILITY
Over the past year, I have noticed that many crafters use natural dye kits to dye Cotton, linen and other plant based fibres. Unknown to them, the mordanting instructions used for Wool or Silk are unsuitable for plant based fibres and often will result in pale, short lasting colours.
We have remedied that with our collection of ever growing dye kits and stand alone dye recipes. You can now choose the dye kit according to your fibre need ~ protein (wool & other animal fibres) or plant based fibres (linen, hemp, cotton)
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The DYE Kit makes a lovely present too - well packaged in recyclable cardboard, the dyes come in resealable stand up bags and the recipe is printed on strong booklet paper, which can be reused again and again.
What you will receive in this Kit:
Full and reusable Dyeing instructions
How to care for your plant dyed things care card
200g Rhubarb Roots, 100g Alum, 30g Soda Ash ~ all packaged in resealable stand up bags
RHUBARB FOR WOOL & SILK ~ NATURAL DYE KIT
RHUBARB NATURAL DYEING KIT FOR WOOL & SILK ~ This Kit contains everything you need to dye 100-300g of Yarn/Fibre/Fabric.
DYE COLOURS: Golden Dark Yellows, Green, Earthy red
Most natural dyes aren't immediately exhausted and you can continue dyeing several more pieces. Each new dip will result in a paler colour.
_____________________________
Don't want a Kit, but just the recipe? Click here for a downloadable PDF!
SUITABILITY
Over the past year, I have noticed that many crafters use natural dye kits to dye Cotton, linen and other plant based fibres. Unknown to them, the mordanting instructions used for Wool or Silk are unsuitable for plant based fibres and often will result in pale, short lasting colours.
We have remedied that with our collection of ever growing dye kits and stand alone dye recipes. You can now choose the dye kit according to your fibre need ~ protein (wool & other animal fibres) or plant based fibres (linen, hemp, cotton)
****************************
The DYE Kit makes a lovely present too - well packaged in recyclable cardboard, the dyes come in resealable stand up bags and the recipe is printed on strong booklet paper, which can be reused again and again.
What you will receive in this Kit:
Full and reusable Dyeing instructions
How to care for your plant dyed things care card
100g Rhubarb Roots, 30g Alum, 15g Soda Ash, 5g Iron ~ all packaged in resealable stand up bags
SAGE FOR WOOL & SILK ~ NATURAL DYE KIT
SAGE NATURAL DYEING KIT FOR WOOL AND SILK FIBRES ~ This Kit contains everything you need to dye 100-300g of Yarn/Fibre/Fabric.
COLOURS: Yellow & deep forest green
Most natural dyes aren't immediately exhausted and you can continue dyeing several more pieces. Each new dip will result in a paler colour.
_____________________________
Don't want a Kit, but just the recipe? Click here for a downloadable PDF!
SUITABILITY
Over the past year, I have noticed that many crafters use natural dye kits to dye Cotton, linen and other plant based fibres. Unknown to them, the mordanting instructions used for Wool or Silk are unsuitable for plant based fibres and often will result in pale, short lasting colours.
We have remedied that with our collection of ever growing dye kits and stand alone dye recipes. You can now choose the dye kit according to your fibre need ~ protein (wool & other animal fibres) or plant based fibres (linen, hemp, cotton)
****************************
The DYE Kit makes a lovely present too - well packaged in recyclable cardboard, the dyes come in resealable stand up bags and the recipe is printed on strong booklet paper, which can be reused again and again.
What you will receive in this Kit:
Full and reusable Dyeing instructions
How to care for your plant dyed things care card
100g Sage, 30g Alum, 5g Iron ~ all packaged in resealable stand up bags