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ENJOY NATURE'S COLORS!

Janet Conner presents her own, no fuss, easy recipes for creating Natural Dyes from common local plants and weeds. Each recipe card has a photo of the plant on the front, and a simple recipe to follow with an easy built in record-keeping system. This is the perfect gift for any gardener, rug hooker, or fiber artist!

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Natural Dye Recipe Cards

Each Recipe Card Set includes 15 recipes and detailed instructions. $20 plus $4 shipping (use rug hooking Order Form)

MORDANTS (chemical salts used to make all colors permanent and strong) are sold separately: $10 for enough Alum, Iron, Copper and Tin to dye 2 pounds of wool fiber, yarn or fabric. When purchased together, Dye Recipe Card Set AND Mordant Pack, receive 1 free additional dye card!

EASY NATURAL DYEING:

Dyeing your hand spun wool yarn, roving or wool fabric is fun and easy! There is great pride in knowing you have used free-for-the- picking garden plants, wildflowers, leaves and lichens from nature. The colors are always beautiful and timeless, and somehow they always harmonize together.

You will need:

  1. Four different mordant chemicals: alum, iron, tin and copper- sold separately.
  2. A set of pots and utensils separate from cooking.
  3. Some wool yarn, fabric, roving or clean fleece.
  4. Water, time, these NATURAL DYE RECIPE CARDS
  5. An armful of easily found common local plants!

YOU WILL BE ABSOLUTELY AMAZED AT THE COLORS YOU CAN CREATE!

A set of 15 NATURAL DYE RECIPE CARDS for dyeing wool with common local plants with SIMPLE instructions, SIMPLE record keeping, SIMPLE fun!!

With the easy, clear directions and the laid back, no-fuss attitude you expect from Janet Conner Designs.

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