Cory, Steve, Bonnie, Sukes and Baron

Steven J. Axelrod, EA, MBA
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PYR CREEK FARM, specializing in growing Natural Dye Plants

as well as raising Great Pyrenees dogs.

This page will grow, along with the plants, and will show how nature provides us with a variety of flowers, roots, leaves and bark that produce natural colors for our clothing, and other fiber arts. Also, many of these plants are also edible, for example, onions. We eat the onions, and onion skins make a wonderful yellow dye.

Here we are with the dogs, from left to right: Bubba, Cory, Bonnie, Sasha, Suky, and Baron. Steve and I are the humans. We are sitting in front of a bush of indigo with some coreopsis in the background.
Here is a closeup of the coreopsis flower. It is an easy plant to grow, and produces a profusion of flowers which can be picked and used for a dye. The resultant color is a rusty yellow, the intensity of the rust hue depending on the chemical content of the water used in the dye process, as well as the mordanting technique applied to the fibers before or during the dye process.
More will be coming on this site.
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Steven J. Axelrod, MBA, EA, 513 Valencia St., Ste 4, San Francisco, 94110
415/864-1828; fax: 415/626-8358

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