summer palette shop update & a FB giveaway

I have just restocked the shop with naturally dyed cotton scarves, pincushions & cushion covers ! You can see them all here !

For more details, please visit the shop :

You can also win this alder cones dip-dyed linen pincushion (below), on Facebook !

See you there ! Thank you !

achillea millefolium (hot dyeing)

Another plant I never got to dye with until this summer ! Mostly because it doesn't grow in our warm climate (I'm in southern France), but I picked it at (now what used to be) my parents' summer house. (well, around, that is, not in the garden !) I'm talking about achillea millefolium, aslo known as common yarrow.

Really nice colors, specially on wool, linen & the tie-dyed waffle cotton. (which seems to be taking the dyes well, at each dyeing, that must be the weave) Proud and honored I could use this plant for one of my dyeings !

On a side note, I'm slowly but surely building stock for the next shop update, which should happen last week of August or first week of September.

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geum urbanum (hot dyeing)

At long last, a plant I had never used, and found this summer at my parents' summer house (well, what used to be ...) : geum urbanum, also known as colewort.

I really like the "antique" look it gave to most of the fibers. Not the most surprising color ever, but a delicate hue for sure. Oh, by the way, I used the stems, seeds & remaining leaves.

salvia officinalis, summer 2012 edition

This summer I also used salvia officinalis (sage) leaves again. I got a different result, specially on silk, for which I had higher hopes. But wool did take up very well, & linen got a surprising color too, so that's fine with me !

The leaf I used for the photo was starting to feel ... tired, oops.

Since salvia officinalis grows in my inlaws' garden, I'll be dyeing with it again for sure.

fragaria vesca, summer 2012 edition

Earlier this summer I dyed again with wild strawberry leaves again. I knew I wouldn't be able to access them again before probably a long long time. It was then or never.

I got a slightly different result, but I'm still happy with it.