natural dye colours
i was going through my swatches of colours! all the colour i have collected from my dye tests.. i keep meaning to make some sort of book out of them, but i am uncertain as to the exact format of how to do it???
i would like to do something with a page for each type of plant, as well as a.. rainbow of sorts, with just some little bits of the colours in the order of their shades. i still have to think about it all though.
but while i was looking through them all the other day, i took some pictures of some of them.. i am not sure how true to colour they ended up being? i took the pictures with my phone, i tried to adjust the white balance and i think that helped! but also it was night time and so the lighting was not good and some of the shades of these were quite subtle.
one thing i noticed, which i think is odd, is that sometimes the same plant will give a better dye depending on the time of year. like i used the oak leaves on the tree in my folks' front yard in the spring and it dyed really nice, and then i tried it again, the exact same way, the same tree, in the summer time and the colour was not so strong. i also noticed that with ecodyes with mountain ash leaves, i did some in the spring that worked really lovely and then did a bunch in the summer that were bleh. but that's a bit more chance involved i suppose..
anyway.. i'm not gonna say how or why, but here are some colours!
the schubert & peony were pretty much my favourite things to dye with i think! oh, oak too. willow leaves work really well, but there is not many willow trees very close to me, so it's not something i did a lot with. apple leaves, at least the tree in my back yard, can make a strong bright yellow.. much more so than the picture on here looks...
looking back at these swatches i was suprised at a few.. the clay and the rose hips, from what i remembered they pretty much did nothing, but looking at them now i think they make a pretty nice pale pink. also the chinese lantern is pretty good. and i thought that the mint has more colour than i remember..
i just dyed with some purple onion skins the other day for the first time! those colours are pretty bright! and also i wish i had a picture of some of the dye i made from a bunch of grape skins i got that someone my aunty knew grew in their back yard. it made a really lovely blue!
also.. just so ya know.. paprika sucks. it sometimes dyes and makes a really pretty orange colour! and you think.. neat! but it fades away to nothing.. so, dont even bother.
i would like to do something with a page for each type of plant, as well as a.. rainbow of sorts, with just some little bits of the colours in the order of their shades. i still have to think about it all though.
but while i was looking through them all the other day, i took some pictures of some of them.. i am not sure how true to colour they ended up being? i took the pictures with my phone, i tried to adjust the white balance and i think that helped! but also it was night time and so the lighting was not good and some of the shades of these were quite subtle.
one thing i noticed, which i think is odd, is that sometimes the same plant will give a better dye depending on the time of year. like i used the oak leaves on the tree in my folks' front yard in the spring and it dyed really nice, and then i tried it again, the exact same way, the same tree, in the summer time and the colour was not so strong. i also noticed that with ecodyes with mountain ash leaves, i did some in the spring that worked really lovely and then did a bunch in the summer that were bleh. but that's a bit more chance involved i suppose..
anyway.. i'm not gonna say how or why, but here are some colours!
holly hock blossoms
oak leaves
chinese lantern leaves
red clay
horsetail
mountain ash leaves (top) & berries (bottom)
mint
rosehips
turmeric
(the colour on this one is quite off, it is a much brighter yellow)
apple leaves (top) & crab apples (bottom)
greater celedine
yarrow
willow leaves
russian comfrey
goldenrod
pine needles
peony leaves
tansy
costmary
schubert chokecherry leaves
looking back at these swatches i was suprised at a few.. the clay and the rose hips, from what i remembered they pretty much did nothing, but looking at them now i think they make a pretty nice pale pink. also the chinese lantern is pretty good. and i thought that the mint has more colour than i remember..
i just dyed with some purple onion skins the other day for the first time! those colours are pretty bright! and also i wish i had a picture of some of the dye i made from a bunch of grape skins i got that someone my aunty knew grew in their back yard. it made a really lovely blue!
also.. just so ya know.. paprika sucks. it sometimes dyes and makes a really pretty orange colour! and you think.. neat! but it fades away to nothing.. so, dont even bother.
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