Botanical Dyeing with Rebecca Desnos

I'm Rebecca Desnos, a natural dyer from the UK, a writer, a mother and an all-round plant lover. At heart, I'm a maker and storyteller. I create books and magazines about making things with plants, then publish them myself.

I published my first book, BOTANICAL COLOUR AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, in 2016,  and this will help you get started with plant dyeing in the simplest way. Learn to extract dye from just about any plant from the garden (herbs, flowers, cones etc) or kitchen cupboard (such as avocados and tea). I show you how to pretreat fabric and yarn in soy milk (which acts as a binder), and dye these fibres with your homemade dyes. 

PLANT DYE ZINE, published in 2020, is a collection of simple plant dye projects, such as bundle dyeing with flowers, eco printing with leaves, hammering plants onto fabric, making ink and lots more!

On my You Tube channel I share simple dyeing tutorials to help you get started. Hope you enjoy following along and have fun with your own projects!