Rowena Dugdale

Flora inspired small-batch textiles, plant-dyeing and landscape wanderings

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Plant dyes - all the colours achievable from leaf, flower and root within around a five mile radius. The red hot poker root was a gift from a friend on Skye but that’s only several miles across the water…

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens."
~ Stephen Graham,
The Gentle Art of Tramping (1923)

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

@fastleen Very happy to share, thank you ✨

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Along the shoreline this afternoon. Sparkly light between the rainclouds.

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

@donnarainey4 Close-up they certainly have carnivorous menace!

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Silverweed flower, I was using the leaves for plant dye earlier this week.

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Goat willow catkins buzzing with bees

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

A few things I noticed. The sea pinks are in flower now.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

May the future belong to painters, potters, woodworkers, seamstresses, storytellers, bakers, gardeners, and people who still make things with their hands.

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

@JdEsterre A happy combo with the printed velvet. This was ordered by a fellow plant-dyer so extra pressure 😆

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

The silverweed dyed linen in the finished bag ✨✨

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

@DrNWLuna Potentilla anserina, and I just use the leaf.

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Silverweed, a sunny dye ✨

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

@sarahduce Apparently tasting similar to parsnip, but I haven’t tried.

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

I needed a quick and easy yellow plant dye today. Didn’t fancy tackling the spiky gorse bushes so gathered this leaf instead. Silverweed, which grows plentifully along the shore 1/4

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

I pre-wetted the linen, and soaked the leaves in boiling water for a few hours then mixed them together and left the leaves in as they are easy to remove later. Will show colour tomorrow. 4/4

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Grateful that I had some pre mordanted linen from last year, prepped with oak gall and aluminium acetate 3/4

[Paul Willson @pauljwillson]

Across the Sound of Raasay