Dye Plants

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Comment by yvette cals on June 3, 2009 at 11:58pm

fresh hop leaves!

Comment by kimberly baxter packwood on June 3, 2009 at 4:20pm

I've heard this before about hops, I should see about planting some! Where they fresh hops or dried?

Comment by yvette cals on June 3, 2009 at 8:36am

Hi all, I would like to tell you about Humulus Lupus (hop in dutch) in combination with iron water it gave me the most beautiful green!
Later i wil put a picture on my site.

Comment by laura on June 3, 2009 at 7:56am

Polygonum tinctorium is really easy to grow.If it gets plenty of space, sunshine and water , it will spread out beautifully. The hardest part is having room to grow enough. You need a LOT of leaves for a dyebath.

Comment by bernadette on May 30, 2009 at 4:51am

Possibly getting a local Indigo seedling but have yet to see if it will grow and whether I can get a vat from it ***

Comment by kimberly baxter packwood on March 11, 2009 at 11:51pm

I'm never handled fresh indigo as I've never been able to get it to grow here. I use instant indigo mainly for my indigo vats. I have used powdered indigo in the past the reduction vat was started using Lye and Thiox along with Soda Ash as a Ph buffer.

Comment by maneet on March 11, 2009 at 11:17pm

so far indigo are either available in cakes and powder and looking for direction to handling freah leaves indigo

Comment by kimberly baxter packwood on December 20, 2008 at 11:59am

I will defer this to other list members as I've never worked with fresh indigo plants before I've only worked with powdered indigo and instant indigo.

Comment by maneet on December 20, 2008 at 9:28am

what is identificaton of indigo plant?we collected herb and dipped in water for three days and added lime and found water turned deep brown and chirn and white bubbles are formed and disappear in light green foam.is this the characterstics of indigo