Article Info

Article Title
Plants on Plants: Natural dyeing on plant fibers
Author
Jane Woodhouse
Issue date
Autumn 2025
Issue number
50
Issue topic
Plants
Description
This article tests natural dyeing of cotton, linen, nettle, and hemp using different plants for dyeing, mordants, and alum. Basic recipes are included as well as several full page examples of the fibers dyed with different combinations (madder, weld, and indigo combined with cutch, pomegranate, and tannic acid.
Article topic list
plant fibers, natural dyeing, dyeing, cotton, cellulose, linen, flax, nettle, hemp, bast, experimenting