Botanical Dyes on Wood

Learn how to dye wood with plants. Make your own botanical dyes, dye wooden beads for jewellery and paint dye onto other wooden surfaces – even furniture! The possibilities with plant dyes are endless.Find out how to:extract dye from plants you already have easy access tochoose plants that give longer lasting coloursapply the methods to other plants to develop your own colour palettemake concentrated dyes that are suited for dyeing and painting woodpretreat wood in soya milk to achieve darker coloursdye and paint beads, buttons and other small itemsdye wood evenlypaint larger surfaces and even furniture!paint patterns on round beadsuse iron to widen your colour palettestore the dyes in the fridge and keep them for future projectsseal in the colour with oil or other sealantspaint concentrated dyes with a brush on wooduse the same dyes on paper and fabric!FAQsWhich plants are used in the book?In the book I make dyes from avocado skins and stones, pomegranate skins, eucalyptus leaves, lavender, alder cones, acorns and coreopsis petals. Additionally I darken some of these dyes with iron to widen the palette further.What if I don’t have access to the same plants as you?The methods I show in the book can be used with any plants, so don’t feel limited by what you see me use. The purpose of the book is that I show you some dyeing methods that you then use with your plants. My aim is to empower you to experiment on your own and create your own colour palette.Do you use indigo?This book does not cover indigo dyeing as it involves a different dyeing method which is beyond the scope of this book. However, wood and indigo are an incredible pair so if you already dye with indigo then I encourage you to dip some beads into your indigo dye pot. A few dips in indigo is best to build up the layers of colour. Read more