From onion skins to avocados and much more, you can find colour in the most unexpected places
If you’re making your first foray into natural dyeing (do not miss our May issue if so!) you might like to plan your palette. Here are a few natural products you can use for dyeing fabric all colours of the rainbow…
Red
Beetroot, pomegranate and hibiscus
Orange
Onion skins and carrots
Yellow
Dandelions, sunflowers and marigolds
Green
Spinach, nettles and grass
Blue
Red cabbage, blueberries and red grapes
Indigo
Woad plant and elderberries
Violet
Purple basil leaves and sumac berries
If you’re inspired to give natural dyeing a go, don’t miss our May issue, which has in it all the instructions you’ll need for dyeing cotton and linen napkins, tablecloths and more. The projects are taken from Taken from Natural Dyeing: Learn How to Create Colour and Dye Textiles Naturally by Kathryn Davey (Hardie Grant) with photography by Doreen Kilfeather and Kathryn Davey.
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