Gentleman Cat! Valentines cat card with silk heart dyed with Brazilwood. Background is handmade paper banana. Buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

Reflections! Valentines card with silk hearts dyed with Brazilwood. Background is handmade paper dyed with cochineal. Buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

Love on the beach! Valentines card with woad dyed hand spun wool heart on a weld and madder silk beach. The hand made paper in the background is also dyed with woad. Buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

Pink hearts. It comes with 3 kisses! Valentines card with silk hearts dyed pink and red with Brazilwood. You can buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

White heart, an unusual card! Valentines card with a skeleton leaf heart on silk dyed with madder roots. Handmade paper background. You can buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

Peacock Heart, an exciting card! Valentines card with silk hearts dyed pink and red with Brazilwood and purple with logwood. You can buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

Blue Heart, an intimate card Valentines card with a tiny blue heart dyed with woad over a piece of silk dyed with madder. Framed by hand spun wool. You can buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk

Starlight Hearts for the perfect pair Valentines card with a pair of silk hearts dyed with Brazilwood on a background dyed with logwood. You can buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

Weaving a tea towel with organic cotton. The weft is dyed with a natural dye called cutch, with a bit of iron to create a dark brown. The zigzag is woven with the diamond twill sequence going always forward and the diamonds with the sequence going back and forward.

Madder Love Valentines card with a tiny silk heart dyed with madder roots framed by hand made banana skin paper with a border of hand spun wool dyed with madder. You can buy this Valentines card in tropicalvalentinecards.co.uk Handmade by Teresinha Roberts in the Custard Factory.

Weaving a tea towel with organic cotton. The weft is dyed with a natural dye called madder. Technical info: 8/2 non mercerised Venne organic cotton sett 24 epi. Pattern Strickler number 97.

My mandrake is starting to flower at the allotment.

Close up of handwoven scarf using hand spun mulberry silk dyed with natural dyes. Cochineal and indigo for the purple and madder for the red.

Handwoven scarf using hand spun mulberry silk dyed with natural dyes. Cochineal and indigo for the purple and madder for the red.

Happiness is having five tonnes of manure!

All the leaves are gone! Winter is coming. Spiral of raked leaves at our allotments.

World button day! Who has a button jar?

Woad drying. The blue pigment was extracted from the woad leaves.

Parsnip harvest. Over 3 kilos! They taste so good, sweet and nutty.

Latch hook rug made with British wool dyed with natural dyes. It is about an inch thick.