Hi, All Our woad is growing!!!!! We have a sudden warm spell with daytime highs at almost 100F (38C)and nights dipping to just above freezing. The 2nd year ...
In the Yahoo group "Woad growers" photo section in the photo file labeled "Joybilee Farm" you can see photos of our "Contact Natural Dye" experiments using...
Hi Chris. Many thanks for posting your photos. We've had a warm spell here in the UK, too, after a week of nonstop rain. My woad seeds sown in the ground have...
Hi Chris Many thanks for posting the photos. Good to see your DD too! You might like to try some contact dyeing with the woad seeds. I got some blue with seeds...
I still can't FIND my alkanet seeds, Teresinha. They're in an envelope with some other flower and herb seeds that are evading me too. There's a couple suspect...
HI, Michele The woad came from different seed sources and we have the different varieties separated within the nursery bed. The plan is to transplant them ...
Hi, Teresinha The Tewksbury seed that I bought from Sulfolk Herb had smaller seeds than the seeds that you sent, also Tewksbury strain. I wonder if the extra...
Hi Chris Thanks for you explanation. Insteresting to know about the seed sizes. How do you actually do the contact dyeing? do you make the silk wet and then...
Hi, Teresinha Yes, wet the silk. Lay out the leaves, flowers, seeds in a pleasing arrangement. Roll up. Press down to crush plant tissue and release ...
Contact natural dyeing was described by "India Flint" from Australia using eucalyptus leaves. She calls it eco-prints because the colour is fast without...
Many thanks for the extra references Chris. I was wondering whether you might like to write a post about you very interesting contact dyeing with woad in the...
Thank you for the invitation to post to your blog, Teresinha. We are still researching the different qualities and constraints of contact dyeing with woad....
Hi folks. I went to the Exh in Manchester but failed to see that he DVD was on sale. WSD Journal said you had to send to Canada for it, trust them to give...
Thanks for the link. Wish I could see the exhibit. I own the Maiwa Productions Indigo DVD. It is very well done and gives several good examples of extracting...
Yes it is the Maiwa Production. ... Although excellent, I was a little disappointed that it did not include the Bleu de Lectoure sector that I had glimpsed in...
The film shown at Manchester was made from three different sources.. I asked if it was possible to obtain a copy for my local Guild but was told that it was...
Now then everybody - lets make some noise for our new member, Jacquelinethecat, who is a textile artist, and is looking to use natural dyes for the fibers she...
Hi all. With the drenching rain and bursts of heat here in East Anglia, my woad is coming up like lettuce. I threw it carelessly in the ground and stomped on...
Hi, Everybody The List is quiet. I hope that means you are all busy dyeing with your fabulous harvest of woad leaves. I had a look at our woad experimental...
Hi Chris Many thanks for the detailed description of your woad crop. I agree that the transplanted woad does not do as well as the one from seeds planted in...
I've been doing my annual woad dye today. I've got 16 ounces of fresh leaves from first year plants, using soda ash and Sodium Diothinite method. Before I...
Hi Mary Yes, the spectralite does rob the woad from the fabric pretty fast on the second dipping. It is best to do the second dipping as short as possible,...
Hi, All After 3 years of growing woad and trying to extract the dye I finally have colour in the dye pot. (Happy dancing!)The plants are from the seeds that ...
So you dyed with woad and it didn't involve vast pots of WEEEE? Somebody has been pulling my leg, then. Anyone and everyone can feel free to put recipes,...
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I have some preliminary results of my DD's experiment to report -- Of the three varieties that she is growing Bleu de lectoure (French landrace?) Tewkesbury...
Hi Chris Many thanks for the report. I find this kind of information very interesting. I was fascinated to hear that you got so much more woad from the T than...
Hi. Teresinha and others, We have had a very warm summer but the weather changed this weekend so DD may get poorer results from the T. woad from Michelle that...
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