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| dartmoor |
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Monday, 23 November 2015
Plant Dyes
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| source: Richard Mabey, Plants with a Purpose |
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| source: Richard Mabey, Plants with a Purpose |
Useful Plants - Bracken
Bracken
Uses - Bedding, Dye
A fern with worldwide distribution from the Tropics to the Arctic.
One of the chief weeds of heather moors, esp. on heavily grazed, churned ground.
Poisonous to animals in its green state but harmless once brown in the autumn.
Use as bedding : lightweight, elastic in texture, porous (cool in summer, heat retaining in winter), plentiful.
Bracken leaves also used as brown dye.
Useful Plants - Sphagnum Moss
source: Plants with a Purpose - Richard Mabey
Sphagnum Moss
Uses: Bedding, Wound Dressing
naturally resistant to decay
the chief component of blanket bogs.
lives sodden with water for much of its life
may have developed its own bactericide to stave off mouldiness.
Friday, 20 November 2015
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