GROWING DYES – THE LANSDOWNE HOUSE

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The True Colours of Natural Indigo, or what can you do with your Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria) fresh leaves extraction

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”

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”