Vegetable Dyes: Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer

by Ethel Mairet

PLANTS WHICH DYE BLACK

Alder. Alnus glutinosa. Bark, with copperas.

Blackberry. Rubus fruticosus. Young shoots, with salts of iron.

Dock. Rumex. Root.

Elder. Bark, with copperas.

Iris. Iris Pseudacorus. Root.

Meadowsweet. Spirea Ulmaria.

Oak. Bark and acorns.