What did make it into the dye pot...

...got a lovely rusty orange colour brewing up weeping cherry leaves ...
fabric left in overnight on top the fire place, keeping the just below simmering.

India's words tattooed in my brain "Time is your friend".

and a deep purply charcoal from the bark in a cast iron pot... dyed over night.

This became a really thick rich dye, i keep replentishing it and re-using it

Tanjil Bren tales

The journey up to Tanjil Bren is one i have been doing for many years....

... loving every emerald green, fern encrusted bend and curve on that road.

and gems the forest has hidden away ... if you know where to look...

old loggers bridges... you can peep thru, and watch the waters beneath swirl and flow....

For Pam... Landskins

...some of the 'Landskins' being created...

....beautiful silks, wool, and cottons, have been bubbled up in a pot with eucalyptus leaves, onion skins, iron, to give the most luscious natural colourings

Workshop with India Flint

......recently i was lucky enough to spend a whole blissful week at a workshop in Warrnambool, with the lovely India Flint.....

.....learning the ancient art of felting, dying with eucalypts, and stitching, we made "landskins" and 'eco prints' ....

India is softly spoken, has a presence of pure serenity and grace... and is a brilliant teacher...

i was intrigued, and enchanted by the knowledge she shared with us, about wool and how it reacts, about dying explorations with different leaves, about her love of nature, and her travels...

i was totally enraptured by this amazing woman... and how she weaved, felted, boiled and stitched her magic...

There is something incredibly magical about a bubbling pot, full of colour....

it gives me tingles....