A passion for yarn and flax had eager spinners and weavers taking part in a dying art in Dannevirke last Saturday.
Dannevirke Spinners and Weavers Club held their annual natural dye day giving members and visitors a unique experience not often available as they boiled natural vegetation dyes in old coppers.
And although there was a copper of deadly nightshade on the boil, the only dying was of yarns brought along by keen crafters.
![Sarah Thorburn, of Kane Carding, with some of the colourful crossbred wool she had on sale.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/3WF3LG2PGIRMWMT4SZPLZC4XLU.jpg?auth=adbfddb651b515d78d0655aab0a0d61269a50f6703d6c3481f98d2447359fad7&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
"We had an 8am start getting our pots boiling, with everything from lemon leaves, buddlia, deadly nightshade, onion, rhubarb, convolvulus and beech," Elaine Webber said.