These beautifully fragrant magenta flowers yield a surprising soft buttery yellow color on cellulose fibers. If you’re familiar with the shade myrobalan yields, Rubenza cosmos yield a very similar shade. This color is also very similar to the color calendula yields.
Use Rubenza Cosmos at 50-75% WOF for a buttery yellow shade. Fill a dye pot with enough water to submerge the fibers. Add the Rubenza Cosmos, bring the heat up to 160-180°F and hold it there for an hour to extract the dye. Strain the dyestuff and add the fibers to the dye bath. Dye the fibers at 160-180°F for one hour then turn off the heat and let the fibers cool in the dye pot. Please click over to our blog for detailed natural dye instructions.
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.
These beautifully fragrant magenta flowers yield a surprising soft buttery yellow color on cellulose fibers. If you’re familiar with the shade myrobalan yields, Rubenza cosmos yield a very similar shade. This color is also very similar to the color calendula yields.
Use Rubenza Cosmos at 50-75% WOF for a buttery yellow shade. Fill a dye pot with enough water to submerge the fibers. Add the Rubenza Cosmos, bring the heat up to 160-180°F and hold it there for an hour to extract the dye. Strain the dyestuff and add the fibers to the dye bath. Dye the fibers at 160-180°F for one hour then turn off the heat and let the fibers cool in the dye pot. Please click over to our blog for detailed natural dye instructions.
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.
