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Yeeeeeeeeee my Hopi Dye Amaranth seeds are sprouting!! #dyeplants #homesteading #naturaldyes #hopecore #cabincore #gardensky #selfsufficiency#plantdyes
small red seedlings in sandy soil
May 23, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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I can't wait for these plants to dye.

#homesteading #naturaldyes #plantdyes #selfsufficiency #madder #amaranth #horseweed #cottagecore #cabincore #dyegarden #gardensky #traditionalskills #oldways
A madder plant (Rubia tinctorum) with flowers and fruits beginning to form Young Hopi dye amaranth plants (Amaranthus cruentus) with red leaves that are about 12 inches tall green horse weed (Erigeron canadensis) which is supposed to provide bright yellow dye
June 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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What's in my zone 8b garden today 2/3: Now we head to the herb & otherwise useful plants department with some volunteer borage, white sage, soaproot, volunteer thyme, madder, and basket sedge. #SelfSufficiency #VictoryGarden #survival #cottagecore #herbs #basketry #PlantDyes #SacredPlants #gardensky
second generation volunteer borage plants sacred white sage, indigenous to southern california soap plant AKA soaproot shoots starting to come up next to some volunteer thyme and white fragrant everlasting madder dye plants dying back in the winter weather next to a bed of sedge plants for basket making
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Just like its giant cousin, madder, the tiny cleavers plant produces the same orange-red dyestuff in its roots. You just need a LOT more of it. #oldways #selfsufficiency #plantdyes #gardensky #madder #cleavers #homesteading #cabincore
a tiny-leafed plant called cleavers next to madder plants which demonstrates the similarities in their leaves and stems A hand with a green glove holds a handful of cleavers plants with their roots facing upwards
May 15, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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Time to dye. This green is brought to you by California mugwort (Artemisia douglasiana). #NaturalDyes #PlantDyes #foraging #homesteading #California #SelfSufficiency #cottagecore #cabincore
before and after mini skeins of wool yarn laid next to each other: white with a chartreuse lime dyed skein to its right; light tan with a greenish gold to the right of it; natural tan wool with the resulting brownish green dyed skein to its right a metal pan containing a greenish gold dye bath with some mini skeins in the bath and two white ones half submerged to create an ombre dip dyed look
April 24, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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I love foraging, and May/June is when the season hits full stride. Here's two dye plants and a fiber plant. 🌿 #homesteading #selfsufficiency #foraging #cordage #plantdyes #oldways #survival #tradition #cabincore
bright yellow flowers of the Spanish broom plant which produces a sunny butter yellow color on wool the first few yellow flowers of saint johns wort, also known as klamath weed, which produces either lime green or grape purple depending on how you use it. showy milkweed stalks full of buds are next to a handful of last year's dry stalks. i was taught by a local Indigenous woman to gently pull out these gray stalks from last year and the winter weather will have retted them so all you have to do is remove the pithy middle and twist it into cordage.
May 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM