My name is Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw, I am a natural dyer and a dye plant grower (small scale) from Glasgow (Scotland). I took to grow Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria) and Woad (Isatis Tinctoria) a number of years ago and last year in the grounds of the Glasgow Botanical garden. It is purely educational, I likeContinue reading “The True Colours of Natural Indigo, or what can you do with your Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria) fresh leaves extraction”
Monthly Archives: October 2023
The challenges of growing colour in an Urban garden #theindigoplot
My name is Elisabeth (with an S) and I live in the West end of Glasgow, not in a small holding or a croft (I am in Scotland) and not in a large farm building in the South of France. That has a lot of advantages but just sometimes my activities as a natural dyerContinue reading “The challenges of growing colour in an Urban garden #theindigoplot”