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St. John's Wort Gold Cup Fruit


Plant/Non Human Collaborator: St John's Wort - Golden Cup, red fruit after the flowers


Forager/Dyer/Human Collaborator: Cydni Carter Lopez


Color/Fiber: Pink Brown on Linen mordanted with Alum Acetate


Date Foraged: July 3, 2020


Location Foraged: NE 18th & Glisan,


Dye Method: Stove Top


Recipe: Collected just two block from my house. A pacific northwest native this was put in my landscapers around an apartment complex. The plants exploded in the particularly sunny spots. I walked by the bright yellow flowers for weeks and watched them turn into. radiantly red berries or bulbs. I harvested as many as I could find and dyed about 50 grams of linen.





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