r/naturaldye

I know it’s common knowledge that oak dyes this way but just wanted to share my dye tests experimenting with spring oak leaves. I’ve dyed with autumn oak leaves and ecoprinted a ton, I honestly see no difference is early or late season oak!

This is my first sheep fleece. Still have 1/3 to go but am ecstatic with the yarn so far!! Pink is cochineal i think i threw a little logwood in as well, blue/purple is logwood (may have thrown a little cochineal in there LOL) and yellow is… RED CLOVER! I picked a hundred blossoms from the field because they are going to mow it for a festival in ~2 weeks. Heated for an hour and sat it overnight. The yellow on this yarn is subtle BUT i am cool dyeing store bought white wool in the rest of the tea rn and it’s BIGTIME yellow - pics to come after they’re done and rinsed we shall see. I also did an alkanet skein but the color is off white - disappointing and expensive.
Now I’m off to make a shawl!

I bought this garment on the online vintage shop and want to dye it purple. I'm feeling lazy and I have less money. So I think I'd better to dye it with grape juice like delmonte rather than using natural ingredients. But I'm not sure what's the result if I do it. Is it bad idea?