Category Archives: INDIGO DIARIES

From Seed to Blue – Home growing Indigo pigment plants

IT IS NOW TOO LATE TO JOIN THE GROWING PROGRAM AS YOUR PLANTS WOULD NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO MATURE BUT IF YOU ARE ALREADY GROWING AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE PART IN THE TWO DYEING WORKSHOPS (LIVE ZOOM AND RECORDED FOR REPLAY) END OF JULY AND END OF AUGUST 2024 BOOK A SPACEContinue reading “From Seed to Blue – Home growing Indigo pigment plants”

ABOUT THE INDIGO FAMILY AND TRAVELLING SOLO IN NORTHERN THAILAND ON NEW YEAR’S EVE

And it is the New Year already, 2024 already, time passes so fast when you are having fun learning and sharing as I have been doing for years now. I have always had a wide group of friends which I like to call family, friends from home, friends from learning, friends from moving to Scotland,Continue reading “ABOUT THE INDIGO FAMILY AND TRAVELLING SOLO IN NORTHERN THAILAND ON NEW YEAR’S EVE”

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”

My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot (late June) news – Planting the Indigo and – Meet the growers … Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw

June has come and is almost gone in Glasgow, the weather is finally warm and we have a lot of sun, and our Japanese Indigo, Woad, Flax, Madder, Genista plants are in the ground at #theindigoplot. They are growing strong and the Indigo pigment is starting showing in the green leaves of the Indigo plants.Continue reading “My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot (late June) news – Planting the Indigo and – Meet the growers … Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw”

My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot (late May) news – Meet the growers … Deborah

The Indigo plot at the Botanics is going live this Saturday with a planting event https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/japanese-indigo-planting-day-at-the-indigo-plot-at-the-botanics-tickets-330506974257 If you are in the West of Scotland there is still time to join in the fun, You should book a space, it is free but we want to be able to contact you in case there is aContinue reading “My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot (late May) news – Meet the growers … Deborah”

My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot April news – Meet the growers … Nicky

24 Home growers have embarked on that blue path of growing Japanese Indigo in Scotland with me. Small quantities but a big connection. We hope to grow plants, dye blue but also create connections between us and nature, between us as growers, farmers, dyers… I have asked them to write a few words to introduceContinue reading “My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot April news – Meet the growers … Nicky”

My Indigo diaries 2022 – Day 24 – Planting Japanese Indigo seeds with a group of “Home” growers in Scotland

On day 24 of my Indigo diaries 2022 I feel so happy about my 1500 planted Indigo seeds so far. From growing in a raised bed in my back garden in 2021, this year I am starting growing an Indigo Plot in the Glasgow Botanical garden and that is definitively upscaling. But I am veryContinue reading “My Indigo diaries 2022 – Day 24 – Planting Japanese Indigo seeds with a group of “Home” growers in Scotland”