HOW TO BUNDLE DYE WITH POPPIES | ORGANIC COLOR | SILK COTTON | BOTANICAL PRINT | TRAVEL IN SPAIN

Poppies can create vibrant natural colors on fiber with a wonderfully easy bundle dye process. Join me as I forage this abundant wildflower in the rolling hills of Aragon, Spain to capture a slice of botanical color while traveling abroad. This tutorial will show how to bundle & steam dye with poppies on silk & cotton to reveal how beautiful these red petals can be in a simple eco-printing process.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro - Poppy bundle dyeing
1:06 Poppy forage in Spain
2:22 Travel dyeing
5:51 Wildflowers
6:29 Bundle dye process
7:59 Unbind & reveal
9:00 Wrap up
9:20 Sneak peek of next tutorial
9:48 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST
Poppies & other wildflowers
Mordanted fiber - silk & cotton used in video
Bowl
Aluminum foil
Pot with lid
Tongs

HARVESTING HUES NATURAL DYE WORKSHOP - Join me & Eileen of Junction Garden for a 3 day destination workshop in Vassalboro, Maine September 13-15, 2024 where we will harvest natural color from the dye garden & forage flora for botanical printing in an open-air dye studio on a 70 acre farm in the heart of New England. Details & registration: https://www.margaretbyrd.com/harvesti...

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ABOUT MY CHANNEL
Color Quest is a creative channel where we explore the wide world of natural color! If you love using organic materials in all of your arts & crafts projects, join me as I share tutorials and vlogs on how to find and create a rainbow of color from plants and the earth they live in.

I'm passionate about natural dyes and pigments which I use extensively in my art practice, so I'm thrilled to share my curiosity, excitement and knowledge of nature's palette with you.

xoxo - Margaret, aka Byrdie

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