My Spinning group and I got together a few weeks ago and had a wonderful day of natural dying.
We dyed with Cocineal (little dried bugs) for pink, onion for yellow, and Indigo ( yes like your blue jeans!). The green was made by dipping the yellow into the indigo.
Indigo is really fun. The dye bath looks like brown/green bile - yuck! You put in the yarn and when you 1st pull it out, it's still that yucky color. Then right before your eyes it changes to beautiful blue! It's a chemical reaction to Oxygen. The longer you leave in in the bath, the darker the blue. Indigo itself comes from a plant.
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