Change is afoot. Big change, big afoot.
2.26 k of fresh rhubarb root, ready to be chopped and dried for winter dyeing. I still have probably 8k to dig but am hoping my big strong son can help with that next week before we have more than a dusting of S $#@ . Rhubarb root gives gorgeous metallic yellows to greeny golds through to corals and pinks depending on fibre type and mordants and modifiers use.
Such is my ignorance I didn’t know about the colours of rhubarb root. What a wonderful plant; beauty from the roots, nourishment from the stalks and poison in the leaves . . . something for everyone. 😉
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the leaves can be used as a mordant too, but i never liked the effect. and this plant is/was SO bland we couldn’t eat it!
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