[Ansteorra-textiles] dye plants
Nancy Wederstrandt
nweders at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Sep 30 06:29:29 PDT 2003
At 11:44 PM 9/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Clare -
>Wild coreopsis grows all over the place in the spring, and it produces one of
>my favorite natural dye colors - a beautiful rust that has a lot of "depth" to
>it. Last time we used it in a demonstration, we had premordanted the wool
>with
>alum. We used the whole plant (flowers and stems) and it only took a
>couple of
>handfuls to dye 2 or 3 ounces of wool yarn. The color transfer starts very
>quickly.
Okay technical talk here....... Was it the wild coreopsis that had the
reddish brown centers? The solid yellow one?
I suspect it was coreopsis tinctoria which grows in that area but it could
be others. Again - whole plant? did you use roots? leave, stems and
what? Have you tried it dried?
Thanks.
Clare
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