Organically Grown Sulfur Cosmos Flowers

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Organically Grown Sulfur Cosmos Flowers

This year’s crop comes from Sara Buscaglia of Farm & Folk!

Sulfur cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) is a member of the cosmos family. It is a real treat to have in the natural dye garden. This is another New World native, indigenous to Mexico and Central America. The vigorous annual readily self-seeds, attracts pollinators and yields masses of bright orange flowers. You can use them either fresh or dried.

Add the Organically Grown Sulfur Cosmos Flowers directly into the dye bath and watch as they make a wonderful, sunny orange shade that brightens the winter palette, or scatter them for eco-printing. If you are familiar with dyeing with coreopsis, sulfur cosmos makes a brighter shade with an alum mordant. It creates a saturated and brilliant rich orange shade on wool and will yield other orange and rust shades with other fibers.

Each bag is approx. 35 grams and will dye 70 to 160 grams of fiber a lovely orange shade. This dye flower is also good for bundle dyeing. Used dye baths will continue to yield color and make a lovely lake pigment when you are done dyeing! For more details, please see our how to page.

Supplies are limited.  Like all flower dyes, such as hollyhock and scabiosa, sulfur cosmos is less lightfast than other traditional dyes but very delightful to work with!

Please note: We cannot ship this product internationally due to restrictions on plant and seed imports in most countries.