Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential.
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
Munitions worker very carefully and very gently fills a shell. From clip Reel 8 of IWM 580, released #OTD Dec 29 1915. Note the powder in air, TNT poisoning caused skin to turn yellow and was fatal in about 100 cases. Link to partial list of victims below en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
December 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential.
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
🌻 Botanically home dyed wool using kitchen waste spices of chilli & clove, stitched into crochet autumn beauty sunflowers & plumply stuffed with garden grown lavender, now all finished with their twine hanging loops & ink stamped tags in readiness for the little online stall...
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🌻 Botanically home dyed wool using kitchen waste spices of chilli & clove, stitched into crochet autumn beauty sunflowers & plumply stuffed with garden grown lavender, now all finished with their twine hanging loops & ink stamped tags in readiness for the little online stall...
Lichen, from the interior drylands of BC, Canada. Perhaps there's a lichenologist reading who recognises it? I gather this variety is used as a dyestuff.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
March 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lichen, from the interior drylands of BC, Canada. Perhaps there's a lichenologist reading who recognises it? I gather this variety is used as a dyestuff.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
The berries of Phytolacca americana make a wonderful dyestuff. For wool, it produces a glorious shade of scarlet. The dyebath is fun too: a neon pink. #nativeplants
It's a violent emetic, causing spasms and potentially death from breathing paralysis, although I think this is a very rare occurrence.
The dark berries are a tempting treat for young children and infants who might confuse them for more edible wild berries.
The dark berries are a tempting treat for young children and infants who might confuse them for more edible wild berries.
June 30, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The berries of Phytolacca americana make a wonderful dyestuff. For wool, it produces a glorious shade of scarlet. The dyebath is fun too: a neon pink. #nativeplants
If it's HC (Hexachlorethane Zinc) smoke, possibly with a dyestuff added, then this applies (and it's NOT a riot control agent):
apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
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January 15, 2026 at 12:03 PM
If it's HC (Hexachlorethane Zinc) smoke, possibly with a dyestuff added, then this applies (and it's NOT a riot control agent):
apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
A happy spread from the seasonal spice winter dye project of finding botanical natural colours from foodwaste & garden grown festive flavours with which to dye skeins of soft wool - the colour cauldron dyepot has ceased bubbling on this escapade as now it is time to stitch...
January 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A happy spread from the seasonal spice winter dye project of finding botanical natural colours from foodwaste & garden grown festive flavours with which to dye skeins of soft wool - the colour cauldron dyepot has ceased bubbling on this escapade as now it is time to stitch...
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July 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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🌿 Naturally coloured wool, botanically home dyed using dried lavender plant greenery gathered from the garden here at the tiny terrace - a fabulous rich yellow from the dyestuff alone, & then a deep khaki green with the addition of saddening rust water...
August 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌿 Naturally coloured wool, botanically home dyed using dried lavender plant greenery gathered from the garden here at the tiny terrace - a fabulous rich yellow from the dyestuff alone, & then a deep khaki green with the addition of saddening rust water...
A hurried before the light fades picture from the newly begun seasonal spice winter dye project, here using cloves as botanical dyestuff for to extract beautiful natural colours - the warm yellow wool skein from cloves alone, the deep khaki green yielded by cloves & rust water...
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
A hurried before the light fades picture from the newly begun seasonal spice winter dye project, here using cloves as botanical dyestuff for to extract beautiful natural colours - the warm yellow wool skein from cloves alone, the deep khaki green yielded by cloves & rust water...
Under weak wintry light for to take a picture of the efforts of the seasonal spice winter dye project so far - these soft skeins of twisted wool slowly gathering in a rather satisfying heap, botanical natural colours yielded from food waste & garden gathered festive flavours...
December 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Under weak wintry light for to take a picture of the efforts of the seasonal spice winter dye project so far - these soft skeins of twisted wool slowly gathering in a rather satisfying heap, botanical natural colours yielded from food waste & garden gathered festive flavours...
A before the pale daylight falls so far progress picture of the naturally dyed skeins of soft wool slowly gathering in a happy heap from the efforts of the seasonal spice winter dye project of finding botanical natural colours from foodwaste & garden gathered festive flavours...
December 16, 2024 at 4:06 PM
A before the pale daylight falls so far progress picture of the naturally dyed skeins of soft wool slowly gathering in a happy heap from the efforts of the seasonal spice winter dye project of finding botanical natural colours from foodwaste & garden gathered festive flavours...
Speckled because of dyestuff pressing against it but I think it’s still nice anyways so IM FREE
November 5, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Speckled because of dyestuff pressing against it but I think it’s still nice anyways so IM FREE
... for those interested each skein is 50g of double knit wool, alum mordanted, then dyed with an equal to 2x weight amount of dried dyestuff, then the exhaust used to dye an iron saddened skein too - so much colour! 🧶🐌
January 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
... for those interested each skein is 50g of double knit wool, alum mordanted, then dyed with an equal to 2x weight amount of dried dyestuff, then the exhaust used to dye an iron saddened skein too - so much colour! 🧶🐌
I gotta say, out of all the dyestuff ive played with so far, this is the tastiest smell by far. Delicious wood
February 8, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I gotta say, out of all the dyestuff ive played with so far, this is the tastiest smell by far. Delicious wood
Lithospermum caroliniense 🌿
Golden puccoon
The plant was collected as a dyestuff by the Powhatan people of southeastern Virginia, and many of the treaties mention their right to collect it.
It now only grows on one preserve and adjoining properties in Virginia
#nativeplants
Golden puccoon
The plant was collected as a dyestuff by the Powhatan people of southeastern Virginia, and many of the treaties mention their right to collect it.
It now only grows on one preserve and adjoining properties in Virginia
#nativeplants
May 16, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Lithospermum caroliniense 🌿
Golden puccoon
The plant was collected as a dyestuff by the Powhatan people of southeastern Virginia, and many of the treaties mention their right to collect it.
It now only grows on one preserve and adjoining properties in Virginia
#nativeplants
Golden puccoon
The plant was collected as a dyestuff by the Powhatan people of southeastern Virginia, and many of the treaties mention their right to collect it.
It now only grows on one preserve and adjoining properties in Virginia
#nativeplants
Adoration for the twisty little garden apple tree on #AppleTreeDay - local lore tells of an inhabiting spirit that protects the tree & ripens the fruit, folk called 'Uld Dovne' hereabouts which means sleepily lazy, but this glorious tree yields beauty, blossom, fruit, dyestuff...
January 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Adoration for the twisty little garden apple tree on #AppleTreeDay - local lore tells of an inhabiting spirit that protects the tree & ripens the fruit, folk called 'Uld Dovne' hereabouts which means sleepily lazy, but this glorious tree yields beauty, blossom, fruit, dyestuff...
🍏Adoration for the twisty little garden apple tree this #appleday - local lore tells of an inhabiting spirit that protects the tree & ripens the fruit, folk called 'Uld Dovne' hereabouts which means sleepily lazy, but this glorious tree yields beauty, blossom, fruit, dyestuff...
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🍏Adoration for the twisty little garden apple tree this #appleday - local lore tells of an inhabiting spirit that protects the tree & ripens the fruit, folk called 'Uld Dovne' hereabouts which means sleepily lazy, but this glorious tree yields beauty, blossom, fruit, dyestuff...
Possibly my most autistic true life story:
My boss talking about web client wish list: "It needs to be a dessert topping AND a floor wax!"
Me: "Oh I know this one -- what was it, bug excretions? I know I ran into it in medieval Japanese dyestuff, it's, I can see the kanji, what is it in English?"
My boss talking about web client wish list: "It needs to be a dessert topping AND a floor wax!"
Me: "Oh I know this one -- what was it, bug excretions? I know I ran into it in medieval Japanese dyestuff, it's, I can see the kanji, what is it in English?"
January 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Possibly my most autistic true life story:
My boss talking about web client wish list: "It needs to be a dessert topping AND a floor wax!"
Me: "Oh I know this one -- what was it, bug excretions? I know I ran into it in medieval Japanese dyestuff, it's, I can see the kanji, what is it in English?"
My boss talking about web client wish list: "It needs to be a dessert topping AND a floor wax!"
Me: "Oh I know this one -- what was it, bug excretions? I know I ran into it in medieval Japanese dyestuff, it's, I can see the kanji, what is it in English?"
Yes. Maybe for some dyestuff for wool as well.
September 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Yes. Maybe for some dyestuff for wool as well.
Paper rec: Hayward, M. (2015) 'Dressed in blue: the impact of woad on English clothing, c.1350-c.1670', Costume, 49(2), pp. 168-185. doi.org/10.1179/0590... Interesting article, especially with woad being such an old, recorded, dye. #DressHistory #HistoricalTextiles
December 31, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Paper rec: Hayward, M. (2015) 'Dressed in blue: the impact of woad on English clothing, c.1350-c.1670', Costume, 49(2), pp. 168-185. doi.org/10.1179/0590... Interesting article, especially with woad being such an old, recorded, dye. #DressHistory #HistoricalTextiles
Happily the frozen firethorn & iron dyepot survived - a little leafy from where the dyestuff bag split in the ice, but the wool has washed well & dried, & the leafy bits will fall out when wound into a ball! Looking lichen grey in the picture but quite green in the real world...
January 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happily the frozen firethorn & iron dyepot survived - a little leafy from where the dyestuff bag split in the ice, but the wool has washed well & dried, & the leafy bits will fall out when wound into a ball! Looking lichen grey in the picture but quite green in the real world...
🧶 Gentle terracotta shades naturally yielded from botanically home dyeing wool with rain water fermented garden gathered hawthorn twigs - really rather pleased with these softly coloured skeins considering this was a slightly experimental little colour cauldron bubble up...
May 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🧶 Gentle terracotta shades naturally yielded from botanically home dyeing wool with rain water fermented garden gathered hawthorn twigs - really rather pleased with these softly coloured skeins considering this was a slightly experimental little colour cauldron bubble up...
One dyestuff, so many different possibilities, depending on fibre type, pre-treatment process and use of colour modifiers!
All these samples were dyed with avocado skins and stones 🥑
All these samples were dyed with avocado skins and stones 🥑
April 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
One dyestuff, so many different possibilities, depending on fibre type, pre-treatment process and use of colour modifiers!
All these samples were dyed with avocado skins and stones 🥑
All these samples were dyed with avocado skins and stones 🥑
🧶 A rainy afternoon (hence the colour bleaching flash) merrily ink stamping tags & tying twine hanging loops to a collection of garden lavender stuffed botanically home dyed hand made crochet creations - the hope is have these little lovelies start seeking new homes come Friday!
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🧶 A rainy afternoon (hence the colour bleaching flash) merrily ink stamping tags & tying twine hanging loops to a collection of garden lavender stuffed botanically home dyed hand made crochet creations - the hope is have these little lovelies start seeking new homes come Friday!