Tickseed Coreopsis
£10.00
Coreopsis flowers - whole dried flowers, grown in the British Isles with natural permaculture farming practices which build soil health.
Use for bundle dyeing to create direct prints on textiles and paper, or for steeped in water to create a dyepot for immersion dyeing.
Colours:
Strong yellows, deep oranges/ bronze colours.
Best results on protein fibres.
Ingredients: Whole dried tickseed coreopsis flowers
Alternate names: coreopsis tinctoria, tickseed, calliopsis.
Herbal and traditional uses:
Used to treat upset stomachs, by making a tea with the roots. In folk medicine a tea without the roots has been drunk to conceive a female baby.
Flower symbolism:
Coreopsis means “always cheerful,” and provide a lovely sunny presence wherever they make their home.
Native origins: North America
Growing:
Grown on a farm in Guernsey using naturaul farming techniques, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fungacides.
Recipe:
50- 100% WOF
50 grams will dye 100g of protien fibre a good deep colour. Not recommended for cellulose fibres as much as protein fibres.
To make a dye, add enough water to create the space required for your fibres to move around freely in.
Bring to a simmer and keep at 82 celsius for 30 mins. Strain using a sieve and cheesecloth. Add pre-wetted fibres and simmer for 60 mins or until desired depth of colour achieved. Remove from heat and cool. Rinse, wash and air dry.
Ref Botanical Inks book for further info on dyeing instructions for cellulose/protein fibres, mordanting etc..
For bundle dyeing, follow instructions in my book or using the online workshop recording, available within this online store.
Fastness:
Medium fastness to sunlight, rubbing and washing.
Mordants/Modifiers:
Alum brightens and deepens orange/rusts on animal fibres and oranges on plant fibres.
A tiny measure of an alkaline such as soda ash will shift orange to more reddish shades.
Acidic modifier such as lemon juice with shift towards yellows.
Ph sensitivity:
Sensitive to ph levels.
Alkalines shift to more reddish colours/ acids to yellows.
Transport:
Air courier from Guernsey to English mainland
Shipped from Botanical Inks in Bristol via Royal Mail
Packaging:
Packaged in natural unbleached food grade waxed paper, and secured with natural plant gum paper tape and 100% natural unbleached twine and placed inside a biodegradable corn starch mailer bag - safe for health and environment.
