Foraging and creating your own dyes is fun, exciting and worth the effort to create brilliant textile projects.
How to forage shallot and onion skins at the grocery store and natural dye steps at home to achieve deep golden and copper colours.
Found in many farmers markets in the fall, this dye source is highly colour sensitive to changes in pH to give an incredible range of colours including orange, peach, pink to purple.
Explore dyeing with Boletus edulis, aka the King Bolete or Porchini, to achieve yellows and deep browns.
Come explore with us as we leap into natural dyeing with mushrooms and lichens using the guidelines of ethical wildcrafting.
Welcome to lichen dyeing and how to get some of the brightest colours in nature.
Come explore mushroom dyeing here within our forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Forage and natural dyeing with this abundant garden plant gives vibrant coral pinks and reds.
Dive into this amazing ancient and brilliant natural dye.
Step by step on how to use madder roots to naturally dye orange to red.
How to naturally dye with lichen in the genus Usnea, and how to ethically forage it.
One of the most amazing and mysterious of the dye mushrooms in the genus Cortinarius aka one of the "red Corts".
Presentation on foraging, dyeing and textiles within the realm of recreating medieval textiles (aka historical cosplay).
Forage and dyeing with abundant curly dock seeds (buckwheat), a summertime favourite wildcrafting dyer.
Exploring this common photosensitive lichen to get three vastly different colours.