Welcome to my artist residency garden in Puebla, Mexico where beautifully mature dye plants are bursting with natural color. Collecting petals from hibiscus & bougainvillea or pruning fronds from aloe vera can be wonderful dye sources for subtle organic colors in a soft palette of pinks, greens and yellows. This tutorial will show you how brew dye on the stove & with a solar bath, including the resulting color swatch samples (wool, silk, cotton & hemp).
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction – The Puebla garden
1:55 Garden dye plants
5:34 Dye 1 – Hibiscus One
11:25 In the pot mordant
13:22 Dye 2 – Hibiscus Two
14:57 Dye 3 – Bougainvillea
19:24 Dye 4 – Aloe Vera
22:23 Color results
26:24 Wrap up
27:11 Sneak peak of next tutorial
28:01 Blooper
SUPPLY LIST
Garden dye plants – hibiscus, bougainvillea, aloe vera
Alum
Cream of tartar
Pruners/Scissors
Pot with lid
Strainer
Spoon
Glass jar
Textile – wool, silk, cotton & hemp shown in video
THE 100 DAYS OF NATURAL DYE POSTER – https://www.margaretbyrd.com/shop/100-days-of-natural-dye-poster
2021 ICE INSTALLATION NOTECARDS – Grab a slice of my ephemeral installation practice with a bundle of 10 cards featuring the natural colors of Aruba infused in ice. The notecards are 3.5 x 5 inches and include envelopes. Perfect as gifts or to keep to write love notes! https://www.margaretbyrd.com/shop/installation-greeting-cards-2021
COOKIN’ COLOR DIGITAL COURSE – Self-paced video workshop on the basics of natural dyeing and a step-by-step demonstration of an ombre dip-dye technique on textile: https://www.margaretbyrd.com/cookin-color-youtube
DOWNLOAD FREE NATURAL DYER’S QUICK START GUIDE – 11 tips to a successful natural dye practice: https://margaretbyrd.ck.page/natural-dyer-quick-start-guide
DOWNLOAD FREE COOKIN’ COLOR BREW BOOKLET – 4 natural dyes to make from food in your kitchen: https://margaretbyrd.ck.page/cookin-color-brew-booklet
ABOUT MY CHANNEL
Color Quest is a creative channel where we explore the wide world of natural color! If you love using organic materials in all of your arts & crafts projects, join me as I share tutorials and vlogs on how to find and create a rainbow of color from plants and the earth they live in.
I’m passionate about natural dyes and pigments which I use extensively in my art practice, so I’m thrilled to share my curiosity, excitement and knowledge of nature’s palette with you.
xoxo – Margaret, aka Byrdie
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Ukelele Song
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Pluto
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5 Comments
I didn't know Hibiscus grew like that!
I made some wool tassels because I loved the ones in Peru and dyed them with cochineal to get as close to red as possible with acidity and I'm going to put them on my Christmas tree and I'm going to make tiny tassels for the gifts 😄
My tassels aren't near as beautiful as the ones in your studio but I still like them 😊
What a fun video today!! Beautiful colors! I really enjoyed this, but please steady your camera a little bit, LOL. A little bit of a wild ride today. LOL Thank you so much for sharing
I love how natural dyed colors all match so perfectly. I just harvested my Malibar spinach seeds and dyed some glassine bags beautiful pinky/red color. I'm going to dye a big batch of fabric & papers for making my journals. And I leave enough seed/berries to plant next year and to give to my sistets for next year's planting. I also make a dusty Rose color from the vines. And of course I eat the leaves. I've been wondering if I can make dye from dried seed/berries. I'm going to try that this year with last years seeds I have left. Thx for video. Austin,TX USA
Beautiful colours as always
I was surprised by the color of aloë.