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natural dyeing - plants that make green dye

 
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Let's complete a list of plants that we can use to dye, wool, cloth, cotton, linen, and other textiles, the green yellow.  

No need to restrict to region or climate, we're looking for a master list of natural dyes.

So far, I've tried

Nettles

Rhubarb

and an iron bath with yellow dye plants like sorrel
 
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i am curious how rhubarb worked? did you use stem or leaf?
 
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leaf, but it's recommended we dye outside as some people react poorly to the acid in the leaf.  But all dyeing really wants to be done with good airflow.  
 
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using a copper mordent many plants will yeild a green dye, and some lovely broken greens too.
 
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I've had a good green from fennel tops, but so long ago that I've forgotten how I did it - alum/cream of tartar mordant for sure, maybe with either copper or iron as an afterbath.
 
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