The Dyer's GardenTouching on the history and nature of dye plants, this comprehensive guide walks readers through a garden season from design to planting to harvesting for the dyepot, discussing 18 dye plants in detail. |
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60 minutes add mordanted yarn Alum on cotton Alum on silk Alum on wool ammonia annual average garden soil Black-eyed Susan blossoms Bronze fennel broom sedge chamomile chrome Copper on wool cotton Alum Cover with water cultivars dahlias dark different mordants dry spells dye 4 ounces dye garden dye plants dyebath dyepot dyer's coreopsis dyers fibers flower heads foliage Garland chrysanthemum goldenrod green grow Full sun growing season Hardy hibiscus Hollyhock hour Japanese indigo last frost leaves little bluestem madder marigolds Marjoram nursery orange ounces of wool perennial pick pigment plant needs plant per square plants can dye Purple basil Purple loosestrife Related species rinse roots seedlings seeds indoors silk Alum simmer skeins Spacing sq.ft./plant square feet St.-John's-wort strain tannic acid tansy Tin on wool weld whole plant tops woad wool Alum wool Copper wool Description wool Tin Yarrow yellow bedstraw Yellow cosmos Yield zinnias Zone