Teresinha Roberts

Passionate about sustainable textiles. Posts on natural dyes, flax for linen and growing your own food.

[Teresinha Roberts @wildcolours]

Gentleman Cat!

Valentines cat card with silk heart dyed with Brazilwood. Background is handmade paper banana.

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Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

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Reflections!

Valentines card with silk hearts dyed with Brazilwood. Background is handmade paper dyed with cochineal.
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Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

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Love on the beach!

Valentines card with woad dyed hand spun wool heart on a weld and madder silk beach. The hand made paper in the background is also dyed with woad.

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Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

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Pink hearts. It comes with 3 kisses!

Valentines card with silk hearts dyed pink and red with Brazilwood.

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Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

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White heart, an unusual card!

Valentines card with a skeleton leaf heart on silk dyed with madder roots. Handmade paper background.

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Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

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Peacock Heart, an exciting card!

Valentines card with silk hearts dyed pink and red with Brazilwood and purple with logwood.

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Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

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Blue Heart, an intimate card

Valentines card with a tiny blue heart dyed with woad over a piece of silk dyed with madder. Framed by hand spun wool.

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Starlight Hearts for the perfect pair

Valentines card with a pair of silk hearts dyed with Brazilwood on a background dyed with logwood.

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Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

[Teresinha Roberts @wildcolours]

Weaving a tea towel with organic cotton. The weft is dyed with a natural dye called cutch, with a bit of iron to create a dark brown.

The zigzag is woven with the diamond twill sequence going always forward and the diamonds with the sequence going back and forward.

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Madder Love
Valentines card with a tiny silk heart dyed with madder roots framed by hand made banana skin paper with a border of hand spun wool dyed with madder.

You can buy this Valentines card in https://t.co/PMPYy2MU9K

Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

[Teresinha Roberts @wildcolours]

Weaving a tea towel with organic cotton. The weft is dyed with a natural dye called madder.

Technical info: 8/2 non mercerised Venne organic cotton sett 24 epi. Pattern Strickler number 97.

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My mandrake is starting to flower at the allotment.

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Close up of handwoven scarf using hand spun mulberry silk dyed with natural dyes. Cochineal and indigo for the purple and madder for the red.

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Handwoven scarf using hand spun mulberry silk dyed with natural dyes. Cochineal and indigo for the purple and madder for the red.

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Happiness is having five tonnes of manure!

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@KevinWright54 I love buttons with four holes!

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World button day! Who has a button jar?

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All the leaves are gone! Winter is coming. Spiral of raked leaves at our allotments.

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Woad drying. The blue pigment was extracted from the woad leaves.

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Parsnip harvest. Over 3 kilos! They taste so good, sweet and nutty.