Plants for Natural Dyes:
- Cutch, Catechu
- Common Yarrow
- Hollyhocks
- Dyer's Alkanet
- Onions - Red, Yellow or Brown - just the outer skin is used
- Alder
- Dyer's chamomile
- Barberry
- Blackberry
- Cranberry
- Blue Berry
- Birch
- Annatto Seeds - anywhere from orange to brown depending on the mordant you use and when
- Brazilwood - a really nice red to browns
- Pot Marigold
- Heather
- Safflower - this likewise gives a color from yellows to reds
- Fustic, Dyer's Mulberry (wood chips are used) yellows to greens
- Coreopsis, Tickseed
- Dyer's coreopsis
- Yellow cosmos
- Hawthorn
- Turmeric (roots are used)
- Dahlia
- Wild/Domestic carrot, Queen Anne's lace
- Eucalyptus
- Ash
- Lady's bedstraw, Yellow bedstraw
- Dyer's greenweed, Woadwaxen
- Logwood 9 wood chips, graules, or powder)
- Ivy (leaves and berries)
- Hardy hibiscus, Rose mallow (flowers only)
- Saint-John's-Wort
- Indigo
- Woad, Dyer's woard
- Henna
- Osage orange, Bois d'arc (wood chips, shavings or extract)
- Mahonia
- Apple (leaves, bark)
- Bog myrtle, Sweet gale
- Daffodil (flowers)
- Japanese indigo, Dyer's knotweed
- Cherry, Plum, Peach, Almond, Apricot (leaves and bark)
- Blackthorn
- Bracken, Brake
- Sanderswood, Saunderswood (powder or wood chips)
- Pomegranate
- Pear (leaves and bark)
- Oak (oak galls good source of Tannin)
- Weld, Dyer's rocket
- Buckthorn
- Rhubarb
- Staghorn sumac
- Madder
- Blood root
- Rudbeckia, Coneflower, Black-eyed Susan
- Dock, Sorrel, Curled dock
- Willow (leafy stems and bark)
- Elder, Elderberry
- Goldenrod
- Rowan, Mountain Ash
- Comfrey
- French marigold, African marigold
- Tansy
- Dandelion (flowers and leaves) shades of yellows and greens
- Elm (bark and leaves)
- Nettle (plant tops)
- Poison Sumac or Green Moss from trees will give you a Mauve color
So when you have all those dandelions in your lawn - use them for dyes - using both the leaves and flowers gives you some wonderful lime greenish colors!
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