Plant Dyes: Dried Sulphur Cosmos Flowers
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Sulphur cosmos is a bumper dye plant giving warm golden yellows on wool, silk and linen.
These were grown in my dye garden, dried out and packed into Kraft string and washer envelopes.
When using dried dye materials you need far less then you do with fresh leaves. Depending on the depth of colour you want, use from 5% the weight of fibres. To prepare the plant material for dyeing with put it in your dye pot and pour boiling water over it, exactly as if you were making tea, then let it steep for at least six hours, overnight is even better. Then proceed as though you had fresh material.
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