NATIVE/INVASIVE

A Research + Development project

funded by Fibreshed South West

To research & develop abundant native + invasive dye plant pigments

for large scale natural dye + print productions in the UK.

Dye plants were selected for their colour potentials & substantivity to reduce processing time & energy usage.

Working with plants which are available abundantly from the Dartmoor area, with the incentive that their harvesting can actually benefit the local environment in terms of biodiversity & for human health and wellbeing.

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The brief is to develop 4 final dye colours

on our local regenerative wool yarn

and to make the dyed yarns and pigments available to local designers and makers.

The final 4 dye colours will be lab tested for commercial viability,

as with the original Bristol Cloth 1st Edition project yarns.

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This is a very exciting project, which we hope will seed new ventures in the Fibreshed South West community

and the wider British creative industries.

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Natural dye pigment production does not currently exist in the UK,

so this is of great interest to us as pioneers of large scale British natural dye productions.

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