28/09/2026
Various bundles of cloth, thread, and plants, soaking in a dyepot of Apple twigs and leaves.
A surprise to me that it would turn out red/pink.
I'm very much looking forward to removing them from the dye. 🌿🍁
Various bundles of cloth, thread, and plants, soaking in a dyepot of Apple twigs and leaves.
A surprise to me that it would turn out red/pink.
I'm very much looking forward to removing them from the dye. 🌿🍁
September 28, 2026 at 4:09 PM
28/09/2026
Various bundles of cloth, thread, and plants, soaking in a dyepot of Apple twigs and leaves.
A surprise to me that it would turn out red/pink.
I'm very much looking forward to removing them from the dye. 🌿🍁
Various bundles of cloth, thread, and plants, soaking in a dyepot of Apple twigs and leaves.
A surprise to me that it would turn out red/pink.
I'm very much looking forward to removing them from the dye. 🌿🍁
I have learned that multiple invasive species that I have access to in local parks (and am in fact charged with removing from said parks) make good dyestuffs, and the only thing stopping me from heading out with a basket RIGHT NOW is knowing I still need a stainless steel/enamel dyepot & a hot plate
August 30, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I have learned that multiple invasive species that I have access to in local parks (and am in fact charged with removing from said parks) make good dyestuffs, and the only thing stopping me from heading out with a basket RIGHT NOW is knowing I still need a stainless steel/enamel dyepot & a hot plate
Sometimes you just have to mix it up and pick the remaining lilacs and make lilac dye.
#lilacs #plantDyes #dyePot #flowers #naturalDye
#lilacs #plantDyes #dyePot #flowers #naturalDye
June 5, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Sometimes you just have to mix it up and pick the remaining lilacs and make lilac dye.
#lilacs #plantDyes #dyePot #flowers #naturalDye
#lilacs #plantDyes #dyePot #flowers #naturalDye
The Handweavers Guild of America puts out a newsletter called Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, and I think that's great
May 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The Handweavers Guild of America puts out a newsletter called Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, and I think that's great
Select new arrivals in the Magazines & Newspapers Room (2nd Floor, Main Library).
@glreview.bsky.social has an extensive interview with James Baldwin's Turkish confidant, @highcountrynews.org has an important piece on the horrific legacy of the Trinity atomic test in New Mexico, and more.
@glreview.bsky.social has an extensive interview with James Baldwin's Turkish confidant, @highcountrynews.org has an important piece on the horrific legacy of the Trinity atomic test in New Mexico, and more.
May 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Select new arrivals in the Magazines & Newspapers Room (2nd Floor, Main Library).
@glreview.bsky.social has an extensive interview with James Baldwin's Turkish confidant, @highcountrynews.org has an important piece on the horrific legacy of the Trinity atomic test in New Mexico, and more.
@glreview.bsky.social has an extensive interview with James Baldwin's Turkish confidant, @highcountrynews.org has an important piece on the horrific legacy of the Trinity atomic test in New Mexico, and more.
If they remain tradable I'm keeping my stash of dyes to give to people here and there a few expansions from now.
There will be a wine red dyepot, for sentimental reasons, that Erah'sae keeps.
There will be a wine red dyepot, for sentimental reasons, that Erah'sae keeps.
April 21, 2026 at 6:13 PM
If they remain tradable I'm keeping my stash of dyes to give to people here and there a few expansions from now.
There will be a wine red dyepot, for sentimental reasons, that Erah'sae keeps.
There will be a wine red dyepot, for sentimental reasons, that Erah'sae keeps.
Am liking this new green. It needs a name? Ideas? 🧶
April 5, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Am liking this new green. It needs a name? Ideas? 🧶
I used to teach natural dyeing and held a dye day event every autumn. I miss the magic of opening each dyepot and seeing what happens.
April 5, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I used to teach natural dyeing and held a dye day event every autumn. I miss the magic of opening each dyepot and seeing what happens.
Thank you! Marigolds smell surprisingly delicious when in the dyepot.
April 4, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Thank you! Marigolds smell surprisingly delicious when in the dyepot.
Explain the pumpkin part? Was this some sort of pumpkin as self-mordanting dyepot?
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Explain the pumpkin part? Was this some sort of pumpkin as self-mordanting dyepot?
🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - winter periwinkle blooming about garden tree trunks; enjoying yesterday's second hand knitting book find; a most stinky bubbling botanical dyepot of year long fermented Christmas tree trimmings; happy company of a lucky seven spot ladybird...
December 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - winter periwinkle blooming about garden tree trunks; enjoying yesterday's second hand knitting book find; a most stinky bubbling botanical dyepot of year long fermented Christmas tree trimmings; happy company of a lucky seven spot ladybird...
🧶 Pale peachy terracotta orange naturally yielded colour from fermented foxglove flowers, gathered from the summer garden as they fell & steeped in rainwater for long months - now bubbled up in the little colour cauldron dyepot for to become botanically dyed softly snug socks...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🧶 Pale peachy terracotta orange naturally yielded colour from fermented foxglove flowers, gathered from the summer garden as they fell & steeped in rainwater for long months - now bubbled up in the little colour cauldron dyepot for to become botanically dyed softly snug socks...
🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - a kitschy loch ness monster sewing pattern gifted in an attempt to lure us to beautiful Scotland; a little posey of home grown flowers in a favourite vintage vase; dyepots a-bubbling with fermented botanicals in the hunt for natural colour...
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - a kitschy loch ness monster sewing pattern gifted in an attempt to lure us to beautiful Scotland; a little posey of home grown flowers in a favourite vintage vase; dyepots a-bubbling with fermented botanicals in the hunt for natural colour...
A pretty perfect explanation! Yup, saddening is a dye term where the dyepot is modified (normally with a metal solution of either iron or copper) to give a darker colour - in colour hunting goblin terms, you pour a new alchemical potion into the stinky leaf stew & it changes to a new colour! 🌿✨
October 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A pretty perfect explanation! Yup, saddening is a dye term where the dyepot is modified (normally with a metal solution of either iron or copper) to give a darker colour - in colour hunting goblin terms, you pour a new alchemical potion into the stinky leaf stew & it changes to a new colour! 🌿✨
During last week's Open Studio, a visitor offered me some black walnuts & delivered a couple of big buckets full the next day. What riches! Today there's wool yarn in the dyepot with the chocolatey liquid from the husks. It will be even darker when it's done. I'll use the nuts for banana bread.
October 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
During last week's Open Studio, a visitor offered me some black walnuts & delivered a couple of big buckets full the next day. What riches! Today there's wool yarn in the dyepot with the chocolatey liquid from the husks. It will be even darker when it's done. I'll use the nuts for banana bread.
I had a vision of this yarn and worked with High Prairie Fibers to make it a real thing! It is 100% Lincoln, a long wool, and consists of three plies, a white, grey and black. It is a heavy yarn that will keep you warm this winter!
🧶 #breedspecificyarn
🧶 #breedspecificyarn
August 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I had a vision of this yarn and worked with High Prairie Fibers to make it a real thing! It is 100% Lincoln, a long wool, and consists of three plies, a white, grey and black. It is a heavy yarn that will keep you warm this winter!
🧶 #breedspecificyarn
🧶 #breedspecificyarn
tossed a white buttondown I had in the car into the dyepot after everybody left, came out nice and deep after a couple dips. if this mania for true indigo continues I an going to cause a conflict with how much black I otherwise wear
well,
August 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
tossed a white buttondown I had in the car into the dyepot after everybody left, came out nice and deep after a couple dips. if this mania for true indigo continues I an going to cause a conflict with how much black I otherwise wear
🐌 Scenes from a snail slow life - soft autumnal shades of naturally coloured wool for to make miniature crochet hedgehogs; nasturtium chameleon being rather beautiful; dew spangled oak leaves on the grass & gathered for the dyepot; His Tiny Highness snoozing with sploot feet...
August 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🐌 Scenes from a snail slow life - soft autumnal shades of naturally coloured wool for to make miniature crochet hedgehogs; nasturtium chameleon being rather beautiful; dew spangled oak leaves on the grass & gathered for the dyepot; His Tiny Highness snoozing with sploot feet...
Powdered marigold petals wetting out on a magnetic stir plate. The dynamics of the unwetted skin at the top of the beaker are so satisfying. #dyepot
August 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Powdered marigold petals wetting out on a magnetic stir plate. The dynamics of the unwetted skin at the top of the beaker are so satisfying. #dyepot
Finished! Warp and weft are #handspun and #dyed, the pink is from dyepot leftovers that I posted a while back.
#asmr #weaving #handwoven #wool #fiberarts #spinning #merino #handcrafts #stripes #twill #fabric #handmade #homemade
#asmr #weaving #handwoven #wool #fiberarts #spinning #merino #handcrafts #stripes #twill #fabric #handmade #homemade
August 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Finished! Warp and weft are #handspun and #dyed, the pink is from dyepot leftovers that I posted a while back.
#asmr #weaving #handwoven #wool #fiberarts #spinning #merino #handcrafts #stripes #twill #fabric #handmade #homemade
#asmr #weaving #handwoven #wool #fiberarts #spinning #merino #handcrafts #stripes #twill #fabric #handmade #homemade
🌿 Bright pink blooms on the mystery mini buddleja plant - these glorious spikes of pretty flowers will be enjoyed by garden bees & beasties, & when faded harvested for the little natural colour cauldron dyepot...
July 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🌿 Bright pink blooms on the mystery mini buddleja plant - these glorious spikes of pretty flowers will be enjoyed by garden bees & beasties, & when faded harvested for the little natural colour cauldron dyepot...
Adore natural dyeing! Growing & gathering up plants, bubbling up a dyepot - it's fab fun & magic when you pull a wool skein from the pot! 🧶🌿✨
July 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Adore natural dyeing! Growing & gathering up plants, bubbling up a dyepot - it's fab fun & magic when you pull a wool skein from the pot! 🧶🌿✨