Making natural shades of yellow / wheat dye

-- Alfalfa (seeds) - yellow
-Bois d'arc or hedgeapple (heartwood, inner bark, wood, shavings or sawdust) (pale yellow)
- Bay leaves - yellow

- Barberry (bark) - yellow
- Burdock
- Cameleon - golden color (Alum mordant.)
- Celery (leaves)
- Crab Apple - (bark) - red/yellow
- Crocus - yellow
- Daffodil flower heads (after they have died); alum mordant -  gold / yellow
- Dandelion flower
- Fustic - yellow
- Golden Rod - Goldenrod makes a beautiful yellow. The color ranges from a deep golden to pale yellow depending on how much goldenrod you use and how well the material takes the dye.

- Heather - (plant) - yellow

-  Hedgeapple - the wood and inner bark of Bois d'arc or hedgeapple. (heartwood, inner bark, wood, shavings or sawdust) (pale yellow)(Maclura pomifera)

- Hickory leaves (yellow) if plenty of leaves are boiled and salt added.

- Marigold (blossoms) - yellow
- Mimosa - (flowers) yellow
- Mullen (leaf and root) pale yellow. *careful, because the little fuzzy hairs can make one itchy!
- Old man's beard lichen - yellow/brown/orange shades
- Onion (skins) - set with Alum.
- Oregon-grape roots - yellow
- Osage Orange also known as Bois d'arc or hedgeapple (heartwood, inner bark, wood, shavings or sawdust) (pale yellow)
- Paprika -pale yellow - light orange)
-  Red Clover (whole blossom, leaves and stem) alum mordant - gold
- Queen Anne's Lace
- Saffron (stigmas) - yellow - set with Alum.
- Safflower (flowers, soaked in water) - yellow
- Sassafras (bark)- yellow
- St. John's Wort - (flowers & leaves) - gold/yellow
- Sumac (bark) - The inner pith of Sumac branches can produce a super bright yellow color.
- Syrian Rue (glows under black light)
-- Tea ( ecru color)
- Weld -bright yellow.

- White mulberry tree (bark) Cream color onto white or off-white wool. Alum mordant.

- Willow (leaves)

- Yellow cone flower (whole flower head); chrome mordant; Brass to Greeney-Brass.
- Yellow, Curly, Bitter, or Butter Dock (despite various leaf shapes, all have a bright yellow taproot) gives you a yellow/flesh color.








- Peach (leaves) - yellow
- Beetroot (yellow) (alum & K2Cr2O7)
- Turmeric (spice) --bright yellow
- Oxallis (wood sorrels) (flowers) - the one with the yellow flowers. Use the flower heads, some stem ok. It is nearly fluorescent yellow, and quite colorfast on alum mordanted wool.
If the oxalis flowers are fermented or if a small dash of cloudy ammonia is added to the dyebath (made alkaline) the fluorescent yellow becomes fluorescent orange. Usually I do this as an after-bath, once I have the initial colour. Useful for shifting the dye shade, and some good surprises in store!
- Dahlia Flowers (Red, yellow, orange flowers) make a lovely yellow to orange dye for wool.
- Mulga Acacia -(flowers) - yellow
- Sunflowers - (flowers) - yellow
- Dyer's Greenwood (shoots) - yellow
- Tansy (tops) - yellow
- Yarrow - yellow and gold

- Lilac (twigs) - yellow/orange
- Barberry (mahonia sp.) yellow orange (with alum) very strong & permanent. Any part of the plant will work.
- Broom - (bark) - yellow/brown
- Fennel - (flowers, leaves) - yellow/brown
- Ivy - (twigs) - yellow/brown
- Broom Sedge - golden yellow and brown




References: Pioneer thinking