Elaine Duncan

I held Natural Dye Days at my place this month of August.  Yellow day was August 4th where we dyed wool yarns with Fustic as an extract, Osage Orange in sawdust form and Tansy flower heads collected from my neighborhood.    On Red Day, August 11th, we dyed with Madder from dried roots given to me by a friend, Cochineal from Peru and from Mexico, and Lac purchased ground from Maiwa Handprints.  And lastly on Blue day, August 18th, we dyed with natural indigo and synthetic indigo, also overdyeing the yellows and reds to get purples and greens.  I have included a few photos so you can see the wonderful rainbow of colours we got.

Tansy flowerheads in the dye pot

On the Clothesline

The students and their results of dyeing