Article Info
- Article Title
- Plants on Plants: Natural dyeing on plant fibers
- 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
