Reading Time: 3 minutesCarding waste – I nearly threw it on the compost heap. I’d been spinning some hand-dyed fleece and was left with the shorter fibres. The little matted blobs and generally unhelpful stuff that was making spinning frustrating. I didn’t quite know what to do with it, but kept it for a while and hovered over […]
Dyeing
Dyers Rocket: Re-emergence at Diglis Bridge, Worcester
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast year I collected some dyers rocket or weld (Reseda luteola) that was growing locally, in abundance, on waste ground just off a cycle path I know. It stopped me in my tracks. ‘That looks familiar’, I thought. The spike-like flowers, growing out of a rosette of slim, spear-shaped leaves were distinctive. They were growing as far as […]
