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.
Roots coming up, roots going down.
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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