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    Teresinha Roberts is a Brazilian-born artist and sculptress specialising in the use of textiles and natural dyes. A member of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, she dyes fabric with woad grown on her Birmingham allotment and has a workshop at The Custard Factory in the city. She runs websites Wild Colours and All About Woad.

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    How to grow your own woad: from seed to harvest

    How to grow your own woad: from seed to harvest
    Teresinha Roberts • 20-Mar-2018

    A natural dye you can harvest from the garden, textile artist Teresinha Roberts of Wild Colours explains how to grow your very own ‘indigo’ woad plant. Read more

    Meet madder, woad & weld: traditional dye plants of Europe

    Meet madder, woad & weld: traditional dye plants of Europe
    Teresinha Roberts • 21-Jan-2018

    In this post, textile artist Teresinha Roberts of Wild Colours tells us all about the top three European dye plants for use in natural dyeing: madder, woad and weld. Read more

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