This is the start of a collection of botanical illustrations of dye plants that can be used to make pigments or inks or plants used to make art materials (ink the case of oak galls, and charcoal in the case of willow). The plants are organised by colour.
Field madder – Sherardia arvensis 
Hedge Bedstraw – Galium mollugo
Water horehound – Lycopus Europaeus 
Willow – salix 
Oak Gall – gall of the Andricus kollari
Woad – Isatis tinctoria 
Woad – flowers and seeds
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