Growing colour together: Kirklees' eco fashion project
In days gone by the fruits of the forest and garden were put to good use making dyes for fabrics. A project in Kirklees is encouraging people to recycle clothes and reduce the impact of fast fashion.
'In Dewsbury Jane Howroyd, Waheeda Kothdiwala and Natalie Linney have been working with several women’s and girls’ groups,' says Elnaz 'Over the last few months they’ve been teaching the groups how to dye silk using natural dyes made from plants and flowers grown in the community gardens that have been sown and established across the area.
Comprehensive Growing Cards available online illustrate the range of colours that can be created from the most unlikely plants and flowers. Yellow Woad, for instance, often maligned as a weed, creates a blue dye – think of Mel Gibson’s face in Braveheart and you get the idea, as the original William Wallace and his army painted Woad dye on their faces to give a wild appearance before going into battle.
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