Month: June 2018
Books: Dye Plants of Ontario by Nancy J. McGuffin
Here’s the table of contents:
The recipes do not mention lightfastness at all, which for me is a significant downside, but the sketches are nice.
Raspberry shoots recipe
Here is a comparison with chestnut leaves (on the left) and oak leaves (on the right):
More of sappan wood
The pattern is from Odarka Onyshchuk’s album, I already the same pattern in malva and buckthorn and posted earlier. Here’s the photo of both eggs with this pattern together, who knows, I might make more of these still, love that pattern this year.
Coreopsis + old sappan wood
Traditional patterns and their surprises, didn’t realize there’s a star at the narrow ends, until I actually made it:
Books: Craft of the Dyer by Casselman
Unfortunately, the paperback edition I bought, while it has an expanded section on lichen, does not include the color plates from the older hardcover edition, so I’m adding them here: Continue reading