Green Dyes

Method:

• Heat dried or fresh flowers in water and reduced by 1/4 
• Add Alum mordant (pH4) = Yellow
• Add Potash mordant (pH12) = Green / Blues
• Handle plant with care

Method:

• Heated the flowers in water and reduced by 1/4
• Add Alum mordant = Purple
• Add Alum mordant and powdered eggshells = Green Paint

Method:

• Heat fresh flowers in water and reduced by half (pH7)
• Add Alum mordant to the dye (pH3) = Deep Purple
• Add Tin mordant to the dye (pH2) = Purple – then turns Green

Method:

• Heat the unripe berries in water and reduce down to a 1/4
• Add Alum mordant (pH4) = Olive-Green
• Add Potash mordant (pH12) = Pale Yellow
• Add Iron Sulphant mordant (pH2) = Brown

Method:

• Heat the flowers in water and reduce down to a 1/4
• Add Alum mordant (pH4) = Yellow /  Olive-Green on chamois leather
• Add Potash mordant (pH12) = Tan Yellow
• Add Bicarbonate of Soda mordant (pH8) = Yellow

Method:

• Heat the flowers in water and reduce down to a 1/4 (pH5)
• Add Alum mordant = Blue (Fresh Flowers) Purple (Dried Flowers)
• Add Tin mordant (pH3)
• Add tsp chalk to the Tin-dye = Malachite Green Paint

Method:

• Crush woad leaves in a pestle and mortar until they become like a paste, then place the leaves inside a fine cloth then squeeze the juice from the leaves. 
• The juice is used without a binder and becomes darker on each layer (9-1) = Green

Method:

• The fruits are heated in water and reduced by half

• Add Iron Sulphate mordant to the dye (pH2) = Black-Grey

• Add Tin mordant to the dye (pH2) = Pinkish Colour

Method:

• Heat and crush the ripe berries in water and reduce down 1/4 
• Add Potash mordant (ph12) = Green
• Add Alum mordant to hot water crushed and left to soak for several hours, then sieved through a fine mesh.
• Gum Arabic powder can be added to thicken the dye to make a watercolour. 
• The dye can be added to 3g of chalk (and tin), mixed well and left to naturally dry to form an additional pigment = Green Paint

Method:

• Soaked the flowers overnight (pH7)
• Heated the flowers in water and reduced by 1/4
• Add Alum mordant = Greenish-yellow / Lime Green then becomes Olive-Green (pH4)
• Add Potash mordant = Yellow then turns Tan colour (pH12)