Natural Dye Project

Experiments in making colors from leaves, bark, roots, and some flowers from my garden.

New projects will be added as they are created

Kitty McCree, my faithful companion, inspects the dyer’s chamomile harvest.

My dye garden its first year. Boulder’s Flatirons in the distance.

Navajo Tea dye bath and roving in the dye.

navajo tea fresh from dye bath with a soft yellow that will shift to peach,

Navajo Tea fresh out of dye bath. Soft yellow that shifts to peach.

indigo on felt experiments

Shibori indigo dyed cloth with added sashiko designs

Handspun merino dip dyed in Indigo.