Wild Colours - Exciting colours from Natural Dyes

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Natural dyes produce an extraordinary diversity of rich and complex colours as well as unexpected results, making them exciting to use.

Buy natural dyes, dye extracts & seeds

Buy dye mordants, assistants & modifiers

Hazel Rose looms & Rakestraw spinners

What dyes should I choose? (click on a photo)

Red Colours
Madder, Brazilwood, Cochineal, Safflower, Ladies' Bedstraw, Dyers' Woodruff & St John's Wort

Yellow Dyes
Weld, Dyers Greenweed, Coreopsis & Chamomile, Fustic, Tansy, Dock, Goldenrod, Pomegranate, Onion

Blue Dyes
Indigo, Japanese Indigo, Woad, Alkanet & Logwood
Indigo dyeing
Shibori dyeing

Covid news - click here

UK Lockdown: We continue to trade but orders will take much longer than usual.

What are natural dyes?

Wild Colours Natural Dyes

Customer Comments:
Thank you for your prompt response to my order for dye seeds which I received today.
I am writing to say that I find your websites very interesting and will definitely be making other orders very soon! Best wishes and "bonne continuation" (as the French say!). Wendy from France

I loved your website, we can feel your heart in it and it's great. Audrey from France

"Fascinating and useful site. Must have taken a lot of effort to research and maintain it.’ David Finnegan, Southport

‘Brilliant service. Finding your website really informative.’ Claire from Shipley, UK

'Wow! Thank you so much for sending me my parcel in record time – I was amazed and delighted! I am just starting out with natural dyeing of our own alpacas' yarn and so it is very exciting to be in a position to get going.' Carole from Cairndinnis Alpacas

'Just to let you know that I've been really impressed with your service and the quality of the materials and information on the website.' Clare http://clarabellacraft.blogspot.com/

“Thank you for the super quick delivery!” Estelle Faust, Harrow

“Hello! You have a wonderful website! So much information! I love all the dyes you have and your product list is fantastic! Just what I'm looking for.” Anne McEnroe, California, USA

'I received the parcel two days ego. All is perfect. Thank you very much. And special thanks for flyers. I visited your other websites and found some very interesting things!' Dmitry Sukhoverkov, Moscow, Russia

What's new on this website?

2021

Covid news:-

10 Feb

Some recent Airmail orders have taken over 8 weeks to US addresses

05 Jan

England is in Lockdown from 05 Jan for an extended period. We continue to trade but orders will take much longer to pack, to ship & to arrive!

2020

11 Dec

Dyes orders: We are on Xmas break from 21 Dec to 04 Jan. Orders received after Sun 20 Dec, will be sent in January.

03 Dec

1st class post and Airmail continue to be slow for the foreseeable future - see our note of 12 Oct, below.

05 Nov

England is starting a 4 week lockdown today but WildColours is continuing to trade! Orders may take longer to ship due to the high volume of orders being received.

from Oct

Covid19: We are in the studio & shipping orders only 2 days a week at the moment, usually Monday & Thursday.

12 Oct

Covid19: We regret to report that UK 1st class post is often very slow at the moment and some is taking 2 weeks or more! This appears to be especially a problem in London. Some Airmail is also taking a long time and may take 5 to 8 weeks to the US and at least 3 to 5 weeks in Europe.

Product news:-

If you don’t see a catalog, Refresh the page (F5)

29 Jul

New Naturally Dyed photos

15 Jul

NEW - buy Acacia extract & page about Acacia extract

27 Jun

Japanese indigo seeds are back in stock

19 Jun

Loom needles & books available

18 Jun

Natural Dyes now available