Articles + Tutorials

This is my first year with a garden, and I dreamt of growing EVERYTHING – vegetables, herbs, flowers, dye plants – you name it! It’s very easy to g...

If you’ve read Botanical Colour at your Fingertips, you'll be familiar with pretreating fabric with soya (soy) milk. It’s a method for preparing fa...

One of the simplest ways to make colour from plants is to scrunch leaves or petals in your fingers and rub directly onto paper. My son was so impr...

Today I have a guest post for you written by Jule Kebelmann from Hey Mama Wolf. Jule shows us how to extract dye from plants and create a lake pigm...

  There's something that I need to tell you... Over the last few days I've made the big decision to stop making Plants Are Magic magazine. Whi...

­What’s the best way to wash clothing that you’ve dyed with plants? Do we need to use special washing detergent? Will the colour last? I receive th...

Today I’m going to share a really simple method for making patterns with iron water. Iron or rust water can be use as a “colour changer” with almo...

In this blog post I'll show you how to quickly and simply extract dye from coreopsis flowers using hot water. This makes a beautiful dye that can b...

In this blog post I'll show you how to dye a scarf with mahonia berries (also known as Oregon grape) with a simple tie dye stripe pattern. These ar...

When we have fewer possessions, we can make more space in our lives for the things we enjoy. Our minds are less cluttered and we feel energised. A...

Today I'm thrilled to invite Merlin Fox from Knives Fox Spoons to my blog with a fantastic bead carving tutorial. With just a few tools, you can ma...

In this blog post I'll show you how to dye paper with homemade plant dyes. The pink dye is made from avocado skins and the yellow is from pomegrana...