In my last post about making herbal hydrosols, I stumbled on something quite by accident! After "steaming" my rosemary cuttings, I ended up with the most luscious shade of raspberry water. Since I am always looking for new natural dye colors for my handspun yarns, I just had to dip in a sample. Much to my surprise, the fiber took on a lovely shade of pale pink that seemed to be permanent after several rinsings under the faucet.
Most of the home grown natural dyes available today from the garden yield a rather limited range of color from yellow and orange to tan and brown. I really don't want to use synthetic dyes or purchased dyes on my precious fleeces, so this new color was an incredible discovery for me. In all the research I have done, did I ever hear of rosemary yielding such a wonderful color!~
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