Natural Colours

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We try to use mostly natural dyes, made from plants, seeds, flowers and roots.
Unfortunately, for most bright colours, we need to use comercial dyes as we have found that only a few of the natural colours can withstand the harshness of the african sun.

For colouring we make "hanks" that are then dyed.

Orange - made from the annato seeds
Khaki - made from eucolyptus leaves
Sand brown - made from the dried flowers of the water berry tree
Grey - made from the black mud found in the area

Blue - we are still experimenting with the ancient old process of indigo