Natural dyes
In your herb garden you can create the toils herbs-dyes. These plants are distinguished by the fact that they contain persistent staining in as part of their various organs, which you can successfully apply for dyeing fabrics, including woolen fabrics. Now, when our consciousness is becoming more environmentally friendly, we are increasingly inclined to use only natural substances for any home purposes, and dye-grasses can help us in this. The ancient art of painting with natural dyes is reviving these days and becomes , which is pleasantly pleasant if you use herbs, in grown in your own garden. Herbs-dyes can be grown among other crops or placed separately. The best dyes are obtained from fresh herbs, flowers, tender young leaves and ripe fruits.
Dye plants are collected at such a time when they contain more coloring substances: the leaves - in the spring, when they are fully opened;flowers - immediately after the opening of the buds. Roots - shortly before color Herbs for cosmetic garden
1. Witch hazel( P. virginiana).2. Rose is wrinkled( R. rugosa).3. Rosemary( R. officinalis).4. Violets( V. odorata).5 - Burdock( Arctium lappa).6. Field arnica( A. chamissonis).7. Lavender( angustifolia).8. Lemon thyme( Thymus x citriodorus).9. Beech.10. Verbena( V. officinalis).11. Lobularia, or koniga( Lobularia maritima).12. Iris( I. germanica).
13. Heliotropium( Heliotropium arborescens).
14. Lemon balm( M. officinalis).15. Calendula( S. officinalis).16. Yasenets( Dictamnus albus).
1 7. White mustard( Sinapis alba, sown).
18. Peppermint( Mentha xpirerita)
plants or in the fall. Many plants can be collected all summer, for example stems and leaves of tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, sorrel, celandine, St. John's wort, cuff. Rhizomes and bulbs of dye plants after collection should be dried.
The most important plants for herb gardens, containing dyes: wida, chamomile, rheeda, madder, droke, elderberry, bedrock, elecampane, pink rose, cornflower, anhuse, hops, golden rue, tansy and nettle.
Natural dyes contained in various plants give a range of color shades.
Yellow. Get from the yellow flower and flowers of calendula, onion husks, celandine, St. John's wort, heather, cuff, tavelog( mimber), fresh sprouts of rosemary, bark of ash and alder, birch leaves. For fixing, use alum, tin salt, vinegar or alkali.
Green. This paint is given to the leaves of birch, hay, mokritsa, tansy, potato and carrot tops, stems and leaves of tomatoes. For fixing, copper sulphate, tin salt, alkali or alum serve. Alkali gives the color a shade, dullness, and the acid helps create a bright color. Brown. You can get from the bark or leaves of wild apple, onion husk( high concentration), willow bark, ashberry, aspen, spruce. Fixer: copper vitriol, sulfuric acid iron, and both these components, together taken, alkali.
Red. Prepare from the roots of the lady's bed, St. John's wort, celandine, bark of the buckthorn. Fixers: alum, tin salt, alkali or vinegar. Sand. Can be obtained from all sorts of tea and fir cones. Fixer: alum, acetic acid.
Gray. Get from the bark of oak, black and gray alder, birch bark. Light gray paint
can be prepared by reacting sulfur with alkali or alum, gray medium intensity - when interacting with both alkali and copper sulfate;dark gray - when fixed with iron sulfate or it together with copper sulfate. Purple-brown. This color gives heather.
Black. Suitable for him are sorrel, black alder bark, reed roots, St. John's wort, stems of beans( in autumn, after harvest, dried up).Fixer: sulfuric acid iron or it together with copper sulfate. To black color was brighter, dyeing is repeated.
Stinging nettle
It gives a pleasant sand color. For 500 g of dried nettle take 20 grams of alum. Thread or cloth is kept in a solution of alum in a mode close to boiling. The stems are soaked for 3-4 hours, boiled, the broth is filtered and put into it threads or cloth, processed with alum. Then bring to a boil and hold the hour at a temperature close to the boil.
Onion peel
To prepare an orange paint 400 g, it is soaked for 7 hours. The liquid is then filtered, immersed in yarn, thread or fabric and held, stirring, for 2 hours, as close as possible to the liquid to boiling. To get a dark yellow color, take 800 g of onion husks and 15 grams of alum. Fabric or skeins of yarn for half an hour are kept in alum solution at a temperature close to boiling. The onion broth is boiled for 3 to 4 hours, filtered, put in it wool or cloth and hold for 1 hour, not allowing to boil. After staining, the contents are cooled, the yarn is rinsed and dried.