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Dyeing wool with gorse flowers collected on a walk in the Scottish hills.
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
- In today's video I head out into the Scottish hills to harvest some gorse flowers for a dye bath. I'm dyeing wool for my great striped blanket which uses lots of unusual dye plants that I collect either in my garden or in the landscape that surrounds me.
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Wow!!!Absolutely stunning colors.. even the blanket is supper cool I think.. I am so glad I find your channel..I really enjoy it..thank you. Scotland is very beautiful..❤
Thank you Claudine. X
Wonderful sunshine colour. 👍💛💛💛
Isn’t it wonderful! X
What a stunning colour. Your blanket is wonderful with a lovely narrative to go with it about where the colours come from.
Thanks Elizabeth. The blanket is one of those projects that just keeps growing!
Wow Jane - what a stunning colour💗!
Isn’t it beautiful Lisa ? X
So glad you had a lovely drive up to Kilmartin. Argyll is a beautiful county, I live in Lochgilphead so you passed by my town today. Your yarn that you dyed with the broom flowers is so vibrant, just a delightful colour. Hope you are not too tired after driving on our roads. Looking forward to your video next week.😊
Thanks Catherine. It was a great drive. I bought some delicious fish in Lochgilphead on my way home. A beautiful place to visit. X
Thank you so very much, that was wonderful - looking forward to the tour next week. Signing up today, you have me hooked❤
Thanks so much Linda. I’m really glad that you enjoyed watching. X
My husband's favourite plant x
It is a wonderful plant - so cheerful.
A very happy colour ......i love this plant . I will gather some of it to try. I likd to inhale its coconut aroma and apparently it is a good wormer for horses! 🌞
It is a gorgeous plant - I particularly love that it flowers right though the winter and brightens the hills. X
Oh I’m excited to do this Jane. We have gorse all over the farm. Have just signed back up to the studio club. Can’t miss the botanical dyes course! Yippee. You’re actually heading to my lovely part of the world today! I live halfway between Lochgilphead and Oban, so not far from Kilmartin. Have a great day. Hope the sun keeps shining for you! x
How lovely Lisa. What a beautiful drive up to Kilmartin it was - just amazing blue skies and long views. You live in a beautiful part of the world. X
@@snapdragonlife I know….I am always grateful to live in such a beautiful place! 💚
Thank you for sharing, I love your blanket and the concept how beautiful! I want to try my hand at dying thats for sure!
Thank you. I warn you botanical dyeing is an addictive hobby! X
thank you so much. I really enjoyed watching this. I always thought you had to boil in the colour, so its great to know that it can be done so gently, and without lots of steam and heat being used. I cant wait for next week.
Some things - where you want to get a lot of tannin out seem to get better with boiling, but I find that with fresh sappy leaves and flowers a longer, slower, gentler process gives a much fresher colour. I think that the ‘sad beige’ is due to boiling leaves too harshly. I suppose it’s like you make tannin filled tea with just boiled water but you make herb tea with slightly cooler off the boil water or it dulls the taste. There are so many connections I find between colour and scent in plants.
Now I'm so sorry I didn't get to collect gorse flowers this past summer in Victoria, Australia, where it's a declared weed! Next year then. Gorse was one of the core plants at Findhorn when the gardens were being built up, and Dorothy Maclean wrote extensively about their importance in that environment. Lovely as always, thanks Jane. Looking forward to the scenery next week!
They are a plant that is so part of the Scottish landscape - as you travel around you can see the remains of cottages, now only a few stones left in what is otherwise moor, with an ancient fruit tree and some gorse - they were quick to give shelter, had lots of practical uses and were mainly seen as lucky. A sprig was traditionally put in the bouquets of Scottish brides and I wonder if that symbolism of fidelity and fertility also led to them being a plant included when you set up home.
@@snapdragonlife I swear I've had a life there somewhere, I've yearned for so long to get to see the northern parts, feel it in my bones ("in my waters" as they used to say). I do absorb myself in videos and stories about that landscape, and want to weave the colours sometime, preferably colours I've dyed myself.
Thanks Jane. Great video. Here in Australia Gorse is a weed!! Means I can take as much of it as I like when it's flowering. I will also try the leaves of Buxton Silver Gum, planted in our garden in our little valley in NSW, that we trimmed recently and I saved the leaves and branches.
It is seen by many as a weed here - or certainly as a troublesome plant - as it grows over and obliterates paths. I think - maybe like bracken - that it is a plant that does well when being used by humans and kept in check. There used to be bylaws in some places where you could only harvest as much gorse as you could carry on your back. X
Thank you Jane I will change my usual dog walking route to a little further away where I can pick some gorse flowers , have you already tried broom flowers as a dye plant ? They would certainly be kinder on the hands to pick !
I have tried - and I think there is a blog I wrote way back (I’ll try and find the link). It does give a colour but not a very good one - certainly not one the glows like this. X
oh, the reveal!! Fabulous
Hello Jane, I was just thinking of your Channel, when all of a sudden there was your email w/today’s video👍🤗! What a pleasant surprise that was!! Anyway, this video, as well as all your videos I’ve seen so far, is just an absolute joy to watch! Your soft, lovely presentation style is unique & very soothing to listen to! What a lovely blanket you have been working on! How heavy is it? Have you created a video on this blanket? Are you considering a tutorial on to make this blanket? I would love to do that if you do! But, it would have to be a simple basic stitch, because I’m just at the beginner knitting level - plus I would just use up all my yarns I’ve had for years!! Anyway, thank you for this amazing video, it was really informative & enjoyable🙌🤗!
Hi Sonia. The blanket is now becoming very heavy as I have doubled it over - before I decided to do that it was quite light!
I shall have a think about how best to do a pattern - it is very simple!
J x
Thoroughly enjoyed your dyeing session. I don’t know if we get gorse in USA where I live, but I am going to try with something else. That was truly a fabulous golden color to the wool. I was curious how you said it could be machine washed. I thought wool cannot be washed in the machine.
If wool is ‘super wash’ then it can be washed in a machine. The wool is given an anti felting treatment. The disadvantage is that it does not block or hold its shape as well as non-superwash wool. So it really depends on what and who a project is for as to which I use. J x