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Hello enjoyed popping in about as long as it took to eat a bit of lunch at the keyboard.

I look forward to coming back.

Will look esp forward to your efforts with plant mordants, as I am keen that direction myself.

cordially
Ricia
Boise Idaho and Badminton England

absolutely LOVED you website, very inspirational, would you like to come to portugal and teach us what you know? we're having our fourth GREEN GATHERING at easter 2008 www.quintacabecadomato.blogspot.com, offer a w/shop at www.encontroverde.wordpress.com !! keep up the good work -ecological hugs

hello,
we at pracheen located in MUMBAI INDIA are also using natural dyes in hand block printing on silk materials. we are using madder, catecheu, henna, natural indigo. we would like to invite you to visit our web site www.pracheen.com. awaiting for your valuble comments. thank you.

What a wealth of information Teresina. Lovely website with lots to inspire! I shall definitely put this in the newsletter with recommendations. Good luck in all you do, regards, Chris H

thanks for this web sit my Ph.D.was about the natural dyes so I ask if there is a chance to know more enformation about natural mordants ' its sources and how could extract it THANKS.

I would just like to pop in and say I found your sites inspiring and have sent off for the seeds to grow my own. Hope I can manage it up here in the mountains in South of France, I will try. It is hot in summer and up until this year, very very cold in winter. This is a ski centre from December to March!. I am a member of the Online WSD Guild where I saw the message you had posted. Thank you

Hello,

I am contacting you from Blooming futures, a not for profit co-operative who have spent the past seven years working on sustainable transport fuel issues. Our most recent work is with pure plant oil fuels (PPO). Unlike most of the other bio-fuels PPO does not need any chemical processing and it has been calculated as having an energy footprint over 25 times smaller than its chemically processed cousin bio-diesel and a footprint well over 50 times smaller than bio-ethanol. PPO unlike its chemically processed counterparts can be made on the farm and lends itself to decentralised fuel production i.e. lots of small presses across the UK producing local fuel for local users. Big industry is keen to see the continuation of centralised fuel production even with regards to renewable fuels.

At present we are faced with industry planting millions of acres of previously un-agricultural land on developing countries soils with oil crops.

These crops will then be chemically processed and then shipped around the world. While at the same time UK farmers will be exporting their oil crops. This is due to the current and proposed environmental incentives that do not and will not (until at least 2010) reflect the environmental value of the fuel and therefore cheap environmentally damaging exotic imports will prevail over locally grown low impact alternatives.

Since PPO lends itself to decentralised fuel production it is not receiving the same financial backing as other bio-fuels which despite their environmental problems are receiving a great deal of big industry and government support. While the government and industry are playing lip service to the environment from our direct experience it is clear that if they can get away with the worst environmental model they will, as environmental groups and as individuals it is up to all of us to try and get the environment put first in a genuine sense, especially where governmental policies are concerned.

I appreciate we all have our own agendas, our own part of the environment we are working for or to protect and I hope you will see the part that a locally grown low impact fuel could play.

At this stage I am contacting you to ask for a link to us from your website and also to introduce the concept of PPO to you and your Organisation. Please check our website for more information, we have a pretty good FAQ section but if your questions are not answered please feel free to contact me.

All the best for now.
Marianne Gibson
Communications Officer.
01273 462197
www.bloomingfutures.com

Hi Teresinha thank you for this wonderful website,you present your hobby of dying fabrics very well with interesting points. your site makes me feel very arty and creative. well done Teresinha from Tony, joe's son.

Hi, Ive just been reading your website, its so very interesting, I new about Woad but not Eucalyptus , I have one question for you: how do you stop the dye from leaking /fading everytime you wash the garments?

Thankyou very much for sharing you wonderful website, I have now added it to my favourites.

Janie

Hi Teresinha,

What a beautiful website! Your silks look amazing and I was really interested to see the plants as you grow and harvest them. You're so lucky to have a place to grow them :o)

Just wonderful - thanks for sharing your knowledge and displaying it in such a lovely way!