Other Dye Materials

Well if it grows in the wild and is either small enough to fit in a dye pot or can be cut small enough to fit in a dye pot, it can probably be used to dye cane for baskets.

Other examples of natural dye material:

• Red onion mentioned earlier;
• Spinach;
• Beets;
• Red cabbage;
• Leaf of the River Cane plant;
• All types of berries, raspberry, blueberry (dyeing with berries is somewhat different than with say Red onion);
• All types of flowers, leaves, bark and roots

Dyes used by the early pioneers:

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/naturaldyes.html

So look around you and see what is available!