It’s now mid-October, I have a bit of amaranth grown in my garden. A good harvest as they say. I grew the amaranth in the allotment in Italy. And they grew like weeds. Nothing like I have seen before. I have decided to make some fabric dye out of them. I have found out that […]
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Winter has finally arrive here in London. The tomatoes on the plant outside are onto their last leg of the season. Many of them have or are beginning to go brown. As it’s quite temperate here unlike the mediterranean one does end up with a fair bit of unripen green tomatoes. What does one do
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Here is a recipe on how make kimchi with runner beans. I recently had a harvest of runner beans. By making them into preserves like pickles so as to last them longer. I like making and eating kimchi as I just love spicy food. So here is recipes on Kimchi runner bean. Kimchi is a
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Recently I have been experimenting fabric dyeing using dahlia and alum mordant. At the moment dahlia flowers in my garden are in bloom. Weather has been cold recently so it is marking the end of dahlia growing season soon. This blog is a follow on blog after i have recently dyed some fabric by just
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This is a continuation of part 2 on the use mordants in natural dyeing. In this part I am focusing the use chrome and copper. Part 1 of the post on the use of mordants like alum, iron and tin are here Mordant in natural dyeing (part 1) Mordants are great to use in natural
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Recent;y I have started using natural dyes again. There is a lot written on this subject of using mordant in the natural dyeing process. I have use mordants sometimes I don’t use mordants. It all depends on the property of the natural dye that you are going to use. I have so far used natural
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I have been growing tagetes minuta in my garden this year. Other names are Peruvian mint marigold, huacatay, black mint and stinking Roger. A same family as marigold. It’s grown like crazy and now it’s harvest time. I have yet to find great recipes for it yet though. I have not tried any Peruvian food
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