Dye Plants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Plants are the basis of many of the dyes used around the world to color all sorts of products, fabrics, soaps, and more. Learn some of Tanya Anderson of Lovely Green’s favorite plants to grow.

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0:00.0	What is up everyone?
0:02.0	What is up everyone?
0:04.0	What is up?
0:06.0	What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin here and
0:17.2	Tony Anderson is also here. She's the founder of Lovely Greens,
0:20.7	amazing blog and YouTube channel and also the author of the upcoming book a woman's
0:25.4	garden grow beautiful plants and make useful things we talked a little bit about
0:30.6	today's episode in our first episode which was the little story I
0:35.5	mentioned about my friend who grew indigo and used it to dye a tablecloth at a
0:39.5	fancy restaurant in New York but I'm curious Tanya what things have you used as far as plants
0:46.4	to dye your products and just how have you experimented with this in general?
0:52.0	I'm a soapmaker first and foremost. with this in general?
0:52.5	I'm a soapmaker first and foremost and I've been experimenting with ways to naturally
0:58.2	color my batches for over 10 years now and I use things like matter root to get really lovely pink colors and
1:08.6	Alcanut root for violets and purples, wowed for blue, and then various other types of herbs like
1:17.4	peppermint can give a really lovely tan color but also a little golden halo flecks around each little piece of
1:24.2	peppermint and it's just fascinating to me to see what natural colors we can
1:28.8	get in handmade soap and in my book I wanted to explore the idea of using dye plants and plants for
1:36.7	color in different ways and my book focuses on useful plants and traditionally speaking you would think of
1:46.8	useful plants as things that are edible or that would help us with health and
1:55.0	maybe around the home.
1:59.6	But with dye plants, what we have is something that allows us to express color and art
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