Making natural shades of Purple dye

 - Basil - purplish grey
- Beluga Black Lentils - soaked in water overnight .. yield a dark purplish / black water. The color is washfast and lightfast and needs NO MORDANT and it lasts - a beautiful milk chocolate brown (when super thick) ... to a lighter medium brown or light brown when watered down.
-Blackberries Strong purple 
- Daylilies (old blooms)
- Dark Hollyhock (petals) - mauve
- Elderberries-  elderberries make a lovely deep lavender color!
- Hibiscus (flowers, dark red or purple ones) - red-purple.
- Huckleberry - lavender (can use it for dye and also for ink.)
- Lichens - A pink, brown, or wine colored dye can be produced from a lichen known as British soldiers.
- Logwood (is a good purple but you have to watch it as it dyes quick when the pot is fresh. Also it exhausts fast. We use alum to mordant and using iron can give you logwood gray.)
- Pokeweed (berries)
- Portulaca - (flowers, dried and crushed to a powder) use with a vinegar orsalt mordant, can produce strong magentas, reds, scarlets, oranges and
yellows (depending upon the color of the flower)
- Red Cedar Root - Red Cedar root = Purple dye (Alum mordant.)
- Red maple Tree - The inner bark of the Red Maple tree when combined with an iron mordant yields shades of Purple on wool.
- Safflower - (flowers, soaked in alcohol) - red











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