Vibrant Acres Colour Farm
 
Weld (Reseda luteola) produces a small rosette of leaves in its first year and shoots up tall spires with clusters of tiny yellow-white flowers in its second year. This rather unremarkable looking plant creates a stunningly bright almost neon yellow dye. All parts of the plant make dye, but the leaves and flowers produce the strongest dye and are what we harvest and dry on the farm. 
 
Weld is one of the oldest, purest, and most colourfast yellow dyes and is excellent for overdyeing with other colours to produce teals and greens. It was most famously combined with woad to create the green dye of Robin Hood’s garments.