Tuesday 4 May 2010

Traditional Scottish Dyes



Colours- Which Plants to collect (page 17-18)

The chart below gives all the plants that produce a particular
colour. the colour which is required will depend on the time of
year and the plant's avaliability. The plants in itallics are the
easiest to find and the most practical to use.

Yellow
  • Adler
  • Ash
  • Bearberry
  • Birch
  • Bog Myrtle
  • Broom
  • Corn Marigold
  • Cow Parsley
  • Crab Apple
  • Crottle Evernia Prunastri
  • Dock
  • Elder
  • Heather
  • Knapweed
  • Marsh Marigold
  • Marsh Woundwort
  • Meadow sweet
  • Nettles
  • Polyganum Hyropiper
  • Polyganum Persicaria
  • Poplar
  • Ragwort
  • Whin
  • Weld
  • Yarrow
Green
  • Birch
  • Blaeberry
  • Bog Myrtle
  • Bracken
  • Bog Bean
  • Broom
  • Coltsfoot
  • Cow parsley
  • Elder
  • Heather
  • Ivy
  • Knapweed
  • Nettles
  • Onion Skins
  • Privet
  • Ragwort
  • Reed
  • Rush
  • Thistle
  • Whin
  • Weld
Brown
  • Blaeberry
  • Crottle
  • Black Crottle
  • Red Current
  • Dulse
  • Heather
  • Juniper
  • Knapweed
  • Oak
  • Peat Soot
  • Popular
  • Ragwort
  • Reindeer Moss
  • Sea Ivory
  • Sorrel
  • Tansy
Purple
  • Birch Bark
  • Blaeberry
  • Bramble
  • Cudbear
  • Crottle Xanthia Parientina
Black
  • Dock
  • Dog Rose
  • Hawthorn Meadow Sweet
  • Popular
  • Water Lily Roots
  • Willow
Red
  • Black Thorn Bark
  • Bramble
  • Cudbear
  • Lady's Bedstraw
  • St. John's Wort
  • Tormentil
Orange
  • Barberry
  • Bog Myrtle
  • Onion Skins
  • Hether
Pink
  • Bramble
  • Lady's Bedstraw
  • Crottle Xanthia Parientina
  • Willow
Grey/Blue/Violet
  • Blackthorn
  • Blaeberry
  • Bramble
  • Cudbear
  • Crottle Xanthia Parientina
  • Elder
  • Elecampane
  • Iris

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