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Dye plants - the seeds
This spring I started studying dyeing plants, in order to make a selection that I thought was good for a dyer's garden. I gathered seeds for all of them and passed them on to Carlota, who germinated and transplanted them to the garden, later.
The colours of nature
Some of the colors dyed during the Natural Dyeing workshop using onion peels, henna, madder, fresh japanese índigo (Persicaria tinctoria) and walnut tree leaves, using different types of portuguese wool and silk as well.
Rocella tinctoria
This small Orchella Weed (Rocella tinctoria) sample was given to me by Guida, to grow my natural dyeing related collection.
Dyeing with fresh indigo
This spring, in Serralves farm we started a small dyer's garden, with the purpose of having a few live varieties to show and maybe use in the workshops and experiments. This year the garden was really small, we didn't have much time to dedicate to this part of the project, but we managed to grow a few interesting plants, like japanese indigo, woad and a few others.