Natural Dyeing on Bluebird Days I’ve spent the last three Mondays taking a natural dye class at Bluebird
Dye Gardens with Laurie Hall. The class was specifically about shibori and
we practiced various forms of it. It was wildly fun and I’d do the whole
thing over in a heartbeat. We spent some time in her huge dye garden to get
a feel for the work that goes into producing those marvelous dye plants. It
also just gave us a moment to get our hands in the dirt. Laurie grows a
wide variety of flowers and has a healthy madder bed.

If it isn’t obvious, I think it is definitely true that natural dyeing is
far more complicated than the synthetic dyeing I do in my work. There are
so many details with natural dyeing and things change with every plant and
fiber being dyed. This post is full of pictures and I don’t even know all
the names of the dye plants much less the details about the chemistry.
https://rebeccamezoff.com/blog..../2025/7/3/natural-dy