{"id":36435,"date":"2015-02-21T11:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T10:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/planning-my-dye-garden\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T01:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T23:18:31","slug":"planning-my-dye-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/planning-my-dye-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANNING MY DYE GARDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although I\u2019ve had unsuccessful attempts in the past at growing dye plants myself, I\u2019m determined to try it again this year. But it\u2019s always a good idea with a plan B, and that\u2019s my sister.<\/p>\n\n

Last year, she grew Coreopsis in her garden, and since she is not a dyer herself, she decided to give me the dried plants. I threw them in my dye pot with a 10 g test skein, since the amount of dried plants wasn\u2019t that large.<\/p>\n\n

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Alum mordanted wool and dried coreopsis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

But that was just the first skein out of many. In the end, the small amount of plants in the top photo dyed 6 test skeins or 60 g of wool in a range of orange colors.<\/p>\n\n

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Orange with coreopsis – Coreopsis tinctoria<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

FACTS – COREOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Mordant 10 % alum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Water tap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Yarn Supersoft 575 m \/ 100 g<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Yarn:DyestuffAbout 1:1 dried plant weight, but I could have used less <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Conclusion Excellent dyestuff, contains a lot of color<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

I hope she grows some more this year \u2013 after googling around, I found that some types of coreopsis are annuals, some perennials, and some are annuals that self-seed very easily, but I don\u2019t know which one my sister has. So I\u2019m also going to try. I have ordered these seeds from www.wildcolours.co.uk (they sent the seeds the same day, and they arrived in my mailbox in Denmark in 3 days). It\u2019s woad, japanese indigo, coreopsis, and dyer\u2019s greenweed.<\/p>\n\n

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Dye plant seeds<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

And this is what I am going to do with them:<\/p>\n\n

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  • Japanese indigo \u2013 I\u2019ve read in several places that you have to sow the seeds indoors. The timing depends who you ask, anything from 8 to 2 weeks before the last frost. Here in Denmark, 2-3 weeks before the last chance of frost would be the beginning of May, so that\u2019s my plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Woad \u2013 I\u2019ve tried sowing woad seeds outside in the past and they didn\u2019t germinate. The information you can find online is mixed \u2013 some people say sow them inside, some say outside. This time, I\u2019ll sow them outside in March. We\u2019ve moved since I tried it last, and the old garden was in a very windy and cold spot, so maybe it will work this time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Coreopsis – I’ve read that you can sow the seeds directly in early spring, so that would probably be March-April around here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Dyer\u2019s greenweed \u2013 one person says to sow it outside in the fall, another says that you can also do it in February. Since it is now February and my seeds just arrived, I\u2019m just going to try it now. Several people agree that you should soak the seeds in warm water overnight or 24 h before planting, so that\u2019s what I am doing. Then sow them outside in pots \u2013 they need cold dampness to break dormancy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

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    Although I\u2019ve had unsuccessful attempts in the past at growing dye plants myself, I\u2019m determined to try it again this year. But it\u2019s always a good idea with a plan B, and that\u2019s my sister. Last year, she grew Coreopsis in her garden, and since she is not a dyer herself, she decided to give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[588,586,587,83,564,589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39625,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36435\/revisions\/39625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}