Rowena Dugdale
@redrubyrose.bsky.social
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Flora inspired small-batch textiles, plant-dyeing and landscape wanderings. redrubyrose.com
Harris, what a week! Got lucky with the weather and had these beaches to ourselves. Can hardly believe it.
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Gorse flower after an overnight soak. A richer orange than the sunny yellow expected. The fabric was mordanted back in October and I think that extra curing time has really helped the depth of colour. Prepping fabric for plant-dyes is really boring though so I never have enough stored.
8 months ago
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A sunny day gathering coconut-scented gorse for the first dye pot of the year. Grateful to have some mordanted linen ready to go (prepared with oak gall and aluminium acetate last year). Happy to be starting a new season of colour 💛
8 months ago
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The start of new patchwork panels. Linen dyed with indigo, madder, meadowsweet, reed, oak gall.
8 months ago
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Finished up this custom make, with patchwork panels dyed with madder, indigo, meadowsweet and logwood. Winging its way to new owner now 🌿
8 months ago
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Along the shoreline this afternoon to a favourite spot.
8 months ago
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In progress, snippets of plant-dyed linen becoming bag panels. Including indigo, meadowsweet, reed flower and madder.
9 months ago
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A few new bags finished up today featuring fern fronds, bamboo stripes and pine trees.
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9 months ago
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Along the shoreline this afternoon. Low sunshine, oystercatchers calling and high tide treasures.
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Jo Stephen
9 months ago
Alder, many years ago, by the banks of the Dorset Stour.
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Three weeks on from my last visit to Inverewe garden and the early blooms are here along with some lovely dappled light. A magic place off season ✨
9 months ago
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Out on the kayak today. A sharper easterly wind than forecast on Loch Maree so just a short paddle and then a warming hot chocolate at Midge Bite cafe. Love these sunny winter days.
9 months ago
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Applications are now open for the six month natural plant dyeing course at Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft. Run by fantastic tutors Jacqui Symons and Jenny Dean.
9 months ago
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A few new makes listed on my website. These printed velvet zipper bags feature fern frond details from a recent visit to Inverewe garden.
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Endless
10 months ago
Cut little lichen tentacle 🐙 in a mossy crack
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Pattern and print inspiration at Inverewe garden yesterday.
10 months ago
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This time of year is plant-dye hibernation for me. Back in October there were metres of silk drying in the breeze. This was a happy indigo leaf, logwood and willow combo.
10 months ago
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Mellon Udrigle today 🩵
10 months ago
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Frosted twiggery beside Loch Luichart this afternoon. January sunshine is always a treat ✨
10 months ago
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Danna Ray
10 months ago
winter beech study
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elizaabenson
12 months ago
Natural dyeing with buckthorn bark - a mix of different mordants and both fermented and non-fermented vats.
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Winter light on the beach, my favourite. Big Sand, NW Highlands ✨
10 months ago
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Ferns, lichen, feathers and twiggery 🌿 just finished up this batch.
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11 months ago
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Hawthorn berries 🩷
11 months ago
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Patchwork shoulder bags are now listed. Snippets of madder, indigo, meadowsweet and oak gall on this one 🌿
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MickWard
12 months ago
Delighted with the post today!Thanks Rowena
@redrubyrose.bsky.social
Exquisitely crafted.
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This patchwork shoulder bag will be part of a mini-shop update on Sunday eve. The dyed linen panels include indigo, meadowsweet, oak gall, madder and heather.
www.redrubyrose.com
12 months ago
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Although the Japanese indigo has mainly died back after the icy weather there were enough leaves today to dye this silk ribbon 🩵
12 months ago
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The light when the northerlies were here last week, all change now 💨
12 months ago
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Just a few quilted silk purses remain on my website. Dyed with homegrown indigo leaf, madder root, willow and logwood. For storing treasures, travelling with jewellery, or carrying coins 🧡
12 months ago
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Working on some patchwork panels for shoulder bags. These take time but it’s a soothing process combining the plant colours. Indigo, madder, meadowsweet, heather and oak gall.
12 months ago
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A beautiful line of colour by Californian dyer Heidi of Honeyfolk clothing. This is Ceriops Tagal a red tannin I’m not familiar with. Available from Botanical Color:
botanicalcolors.com/mordant-mond...
12 months ago
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Baosbheinn, the Wizard’s mountain with snowy hat today.
12 months ago
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
12 months ago
Hello! Your friendly neighborhood artist here. People who sell online are under tremendous pressure to discount their stuff heavily for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. This doesn't work for most of us because our margins are thin and we can't generate big sales volumes.
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Charlotte Bezzant
12 months ago
Thinking about bringing 🦢🍃🌳🌎 over here then. Hoping to find the nature loving community I have left behind. Never been one to ask to be shared, but I’d be grateful if you could tell people I’m here.
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Just finished up a new batch of large wash bags. They are water resistant and lightweight so handy for travel or postal gifts. As always the print designs are my own and I make every bag from start to finish.
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12 months ago
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The squalls and seascapes. Love the light at this time of year here in Wester Ross.
12 months ago
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Emma Mitchell
12 months ago
I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature. Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
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Isabella Rosner
12 months ago
Being at work on a Saturday is always confusing for my body and brain but it’s worth it when I get to hang out with treats like this, a circa 1745 men’s waistcoat.
collections.royal-needlework.org.uk/object-col-2...
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A box of goodies heading to Chintz & Wood in Worthing 🌿
12 months ago
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Walnut husks and indigo leaf on the line a few weeks ago. The walnut husks are sitting in a pot in the polytunnel and will last for winter dyeing.
12 months ago
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Meadowsweet two ways. This bag features a digital print on velvet from roadside flowers on Mull, with a linen lining dyed this summer with meadowsweet flowers. They make a beautiful dye but the scent is almost overwhelming when heated. It’s one dye-pot I always banish to the garden to steep.
12 months ago
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Indigo leaf colours on silk, colours from this season. Using the leaf fresh is an easy process, it bypasses the need for a vat and creates lighter blues and a base for over-dyeing.
12 months ago
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She sells seashells. Order heading out today.
12 months ago
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Fence line drying here until we re-concrete the washing line pole back in after last week’s wind. Indigo leaf on silk from yesterday’s dyeing.
12 months ago
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The Japanese indigo is flowering now but there is still colour in the leaf. 1/2
12 months ago
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Our neighbours.
12 months ago
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A few gift ideas currently on my website, including printed velvet cushions, travel bags, plant-dyed silk purses and framed works.
www.redrubyrose.com
about 1 year ago
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This weather in November is always a treat. Dunlins or plovers for company.
about 1 year ago
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These plant-dyed Shetland wool skeins are by Emma Kylmala. She’ll be taking them along to Make Joy tomorrow at Woolwich Works - a one-day celebration of yarn for knitters, crocheters and makers.
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