Silkin värjääminen luonnon väriaineilla on suurta seikkailua, ja lopputulokset ovat erityisiä, uniikkeja yksilöitä. Kaikki kuvissa olevat huivit ovat luonnonväreillä värjäämiäni 100% pongee 5, pongee 8 tai Crepe de Chine silkkiä. Väriaineet, huivin numero, koko, muoto ja silkin laatu on kerrottu kunkin kuvan yhteydessä. Hinta on mainittu vain jos huivi on ostettavissa.
Dyeing silk with natural dye materials is great adventure, and the outcomes are especial, unique items. All the scarves in the pictures are 100% pongee 5, pongee 8, or Crepe de Chine silk I have dyed with natural dyes. The dye materials, number, size, shape and silk quality of the scarf are described under each picture. Price is mentioned only if the scarf is for sale.

This scarf could be called mushroom salad – ingredients slimy spike caps, boletes, velvet footed pax, surprise webcaps.
m279: 100% Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

Yesterday I preserved colours from the forest in silk again: boletus, velvet footed pax, alder buckthorn berries, surprise webcaps.
m278: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 75 €

Colours from July and August in the scarf: raspberry, bilberry, meadowsweet, bell flowers, St John’s wort, boletes, velvet-footed pax.
m277: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

White meadowsweet blossoms gave juicy yellow, and gray wax paper lichen (Parmelia sulcata) a strong orange on Crepe de Chine silk.
m275: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 75 €

The perky patterns and tones of this scarf came from surprise webcaps, blood red webcaps and cochineal insects.
m274: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

The colours of this delicious scarf are from surprise webcaps, blood red webcaps, and cochineal.
m273: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

The subtle tones of this scarf come from broom, meadowsweet flowers, French marigold and deep red rose petals.
m272: 100% Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 55 €

The vibrant colours of this beautifully draping scarf are from mushrooms that give yellow, orange and red shades (Surprise webcap, Alder skullcap, Sulphur tuft, Slimy spike).
m168: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 75 €

Sumptuous, beautifully landing scarf dyed with slimy spike caps, surprise webcaps and a few brown slimecaps, peppery boletes and Plums and custard mushrooms.
m161: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 75 €

Quite surprisingly, the yellow and deep red tones of different marigolds and plains coreopsis turned into intensive green shades in the silk.
m174: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 75 €

Ingredients of this summer scarf: bellflowers, mountain bluet, St. John’s Wort, plains coreopsis, French marigold, broom, meadowsweet, golden marguerite, bilberry, yellow loosestrife, surprise webcap, cochineal, Japanese indigo.
m271: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

Autumn leaves, alder buckthorn berries, bilberries and coreopsis flowers left their beautiful marks on silk.
m266: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

The scarf is decorated with findings from autumn forest and yard: maple, sage and tomato leaves, alder buckthorn and bilberry leaves and berries, coreopsis flowers, last buds of St John’s wort, and brown roll-rim slices.
m265: 100% Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

Bilberries, velvet flowers and guelder rose berries gave blue, violet and green tones that occasionally shift towards smoky blue or tinge of red.
m264: 100% Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

Gifts of the autumnal nearby forest wrapped in a scarf: watery bilberries, three slimy spike caps, and two small, dry velved-footed paxes.
m263: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

Dyer’s polypore turned silk into gold!
m262: 100% Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

I picked the last Alder buckthorn berries of the summer from our yard to decorate this scarf dyed with Japanese indigo.
m260: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

Princess scarf got its pink colour from surprise webcaps, madder and cochineal and its pattern from St John’s wort and Purple bell vine flowers.
m259: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

Green scarf with orange patterns was first dyed with alder buckthorn berries, mixed yellow flowers and rose petals, then decorated with crottle and shield lichen.
m144: 100% Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 74 cm x 74 cm

The warm glow of the yellow scarf was achieved with red onion peels and plains coreopsis flowers.
m109: 100% Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 74 cm x 74 cm

I found my first handful of cinnamon brackets, dyer’s treasures, and dyed this purple scarf with them.
m257: 100% Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

First I dyed the softly shimmering Crepe de Chine scarf with alder buckthorn berries and velvet flowers, the decorated it with crottle and shield lichen.
m256: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 75 €

I patterned the splashy scarf with rosy shimmer with my best red treasures: surprise webcap, madder, and cochineal.
m255: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

Alder buckthorn berries printed fresh green and blue patterns on pongee 8 silk.
m250: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

The romantic scarf was first dyed with creeping bellflowers and clematis petals, then surprise webcaps, velvet flowers and buckthorn berries.
m249: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

The gentle peachy scarf was first dyed with dock blossoms and then decorated with surprise webcap stems and cochineal insects.
m248: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

The earthy green shade of the scarf dyed with velvet footed pax deepened slightly with black beans.
m163: 100% pongee 5 silk
koko/size: 90 cm x 90 cm
hinta/price: 50 €

The base colour of the cheerful scarf comes from red onion peels, perky spots from cochineal scale insects and “roses” from surprise webcaps.
m247: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 140 cm
Hinta/price: 45 €

The showy scarf was dyed first with Eagle fern, Ostrich fern and Lady fern, then spotted with cochineal scale insects.
m246: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

The downright romantic patterns of this scarf were made with surprise webcaps (red), French marigolds (green), and alder buckthorn berries (blue).
m245: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

Another scarf first dyed with buckthorn berries got patterns from Japanese indigo leaves.
m244: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

This scarf, first dyed with buckthorn berries, then decorated with shield lichen and St John’s wort, was a beautiful surprise.
m243: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 55 €

The patchy brown little scarf got its colour when I cleaned dark aphids from cherry tree leaves with it and then left the scarf with the aphids in a jar for several days.
m242: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 45 cm
Hinta/price: 25 €

This little scarf was dyed with cinnabar polypore and madder root.
m241: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 45 cm
Hinta/price: 25 €

The colour sources of the twice dyed scarf were manifold: lichen, surprise webcaps, marigolds, creeping bellflowers, garden phlox and St John’s wort flowers, lily petals, even some mint.
m240: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

Bedstraw gave a peachy shade candy colour on silk.
m239: Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

The base colour of blue and green scarf is from woad, the pattern colours are from bellflowers, marigolds, brooms flowers, creeping woodsorrel and St John’s wort.
m238: Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

The base colour of the painterly scarf is from alder buckthorn bark, and the patterns from surprise webcaps and marigolds.
m237: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 55 €

This glowing scarf I first dyed with bedstraw and then “printed” with surprise and bloodred webcaps.
m236: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 55 €

This dashing scarf was dyed with alder buckthorn bark, shield lichen and some St John’s wort flowers.
m233: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 55 €

The beautiful blue and turquoise shades were achieved by dyeing first with fresh woad leaves, then again with fresh Japanese indigo leaves.
m234: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

The base colour of the subtly shining scarf came from woad, and the leaf pattern was rubbed on it with fresh Japanese indigo leaves.
m235: 100 % Crepe de Chine silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

This scarf shining warm orange shades I dyed first with shield lichen in a saucepan, then again in the oven with shield lichen and St John’s wort flowers.
m232: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 90 cm x 90 cm
Hinta/price: 55 €

The tender shades of the aquarell-like scarf came from creeping sorrel, creeping bellflower, clustered bellflower, marigold, columbine, common bent, poppies, blue tulips and St John’s wort.
m231: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 65 €

I dyed this scarf three times and with many different plants: (1.) creeping sorrel, red berried elder, (2.) brooms, St John’s wort flowers, musk mallow flowers, creeping bellflowers, clustered bellflowers, thyme blossoms, (3.) rock lichen and shield lichen.,
m230: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 55 €

This scarf I dyed first with St John’s wort and then with Japanese indigo.
m229: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

These colours I caught on silk from St John’s wort, creeping bellflower and columbine flowers, marigold petals and whole creeping sorrel plants.
m228: 100 % Pongee 8 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm

I dyed this scarf glowing with shades of blue, green, turquoise and yellow twice: first with maple blossoms and squill flowers, then with the petals of blue Iris Germanicas.
m224: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

The beautiful, intensive turquoises and blues of the Siberian Squills were caught on silk.
m223: 100 % Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 45 €

The base colour of the scarf is from Japanese indigo and woad, the brown pattern from butternut hulls.
m185: 100 % Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

These delicious red and orange shades are the outcome of “cooperation” between surprise webcaps, creeping bellflowers and woad.
m184: 100% Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 90 cm x 90 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

The beautiful brown and reddish tones of this scarf are from butternut hulls and surprise webcaps.
m180: 100 % Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

The shades of the green and golden brown scarf are from plains coreopsis and marigolds.
m175: 100 % Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

The lush mint green and bluish green tones of this scarf are from yellow flowers, creeping sorrel and Japanese indigo.
m169: 100 % Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

Slimy spike cap surprised me with its sophisticated, subtle tones on silk.
m162: 100 % Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

Velvet footed pax and alder buckthorn berries together made a lovely moss green shine on silk.
m155: Pongee 05 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 180 cm
Hinta/price: 50 €

The colour sources of the delicate tones and dainty patterns of this scarf were surprise webcaps, pot marigolds, plains coreopsis and carrot tops.
m096:100% Pongee 5 silk
Koko/size: 45 cm x 140 cm
Hinta/price: 40 €



