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Dye Plant Seeds

Early on, people used herbal colours from nature for dyeing and colouring clothes, skin, hair and dwellings. Some plants already start to rub off when touched, so it is not surprising at all that people came up with the idea of using plants, herbal powders, extracts and concentrates for dyeing.
Green Orache (Atriplex hortensis)
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Red Onion 'Red Brunswick' (Allium Cepa)
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Jack-By-The-Hedge (Alliaria Petiolata)
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Black Hollyhock (Alcea rosea var. nigra)
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Milfoil Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
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Yellow Bedstraw (Galium verum)
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Forking Larkspur (Consolida regalis)
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Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
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Monk's Pepper / Chaste Berry (Vitex agnus-castus)
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Buckhorn / Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
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Pui Malabar Spinach (Basella alba)
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Woad (Isatis tinctoria)
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Bull's Blood Beet (Beta vulgaris)
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Purple Artichoke 'Violetto di Chioggia' (Cynara scolymus)
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Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
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Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
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Onion 'Long Red Florence' (Allium cepa)
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Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum)
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Garden Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
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Common Cowslip (Primula veris)
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Well known plants for dyeing fabrics are woad plant, madder and indigo. But also in a common vegetable garden, there are cabbage, beetroot and red orache which are also utilized for colouring food and drinks. Many fruit teas get their red colour through red mallow, for example.
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