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*Plant Dyeing: The Dress and the Cloak*

31/1/2018

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"Although textile remains from the early Anglo-Saxon period are quite rare, painstaking analysis by textile archaeologists reveal tantalising glimpses of the surprisingly colourful world of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age textiles. 

Having explored and experimented with plant-dyes for a number of years, we present here two projects to produce garments of the very brightest colours we could achieve with home grown plant dyes."

Read full article at our main blog. 
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