(Tagetes lucida)
A beautiful medicinal and dye plant native to Mexico and Central America. I love working with this plant. It yields beautiful shades and the dye bath smells like sweet licorice. You will notice this smell right away when you open the dye package!
Use pericón at 50-100% WOF. Weigh out the dyestuff and cover it with water in a dye pot. Bring the heat up to 160°F and hold it there for 1 hour to extract the dye. Strain off the dyestuff, and use the liquid to dye your fiber. Hold the temperature at 160-180°F for one hour, then let the fibers cool in the dye pot.
Be sure to check out our blog where Sara shares many free natural dye recipes and tutorials.
Grown, harvested, and cured by Sara here in southwestern Colorado on Ancient Future Farm. Our family has been tending this land and soil with regenerative growing methods since 2005. Our soil is nurtured through extensive cover cropping and our crops are fertilized with compost that we make right here on site. We never use synthetic chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or fungicides. Our dye flowers are harvested every day by hand when they reach their optimal potential and then carefully cured in our curing room out of direct sunlight. All of our natural dyestuffs are packaged in heat sealed envelopes to keep them fresh. For best results we recommend using them within a year.
(Tagetes lucida)
A beautiful medicinal and dye plant native to Mexico and Central America. I love working with this plant. It yields beautiful shades and the dye bath smells like sweet licorice. You will notice this smell right away when you open the dye package!
Use pericón at 50-100% WOF. Weigh out the dyestuff and cover it with water in a dye pot. Bring the heat up to 160°F and hold it there for 1 hour to extract the dye. Strain off the dyestuff, and use the liquid to dye your fiber. Hold the temperature at 160-180°F for one hour, then let the fibers cool in the dye pot.
Be sure to check out our blog where Sara shares many free natural dye recipes and tutorials.
Grown, harvested, and cured by Sara here in southwestern Colorado on Ancient Future Farm. Our family has been tending this land and soil with regenerative growing methods since 2005. Our soil is nurtured through extensive cover cropping and our crops are fertilized with compost that we make right here on site. We never use synthetic chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or fungicides. Our dye flowers are harvested every day by hand when they reach their optimal potential and then carefully cured in our curing room out of direct sunlight. All of our natural dyestuffs are packaged in heat sealed envelopes to keep them fresh. For best results we recommend using them within a year.
