Dying with Stinging Nettles

These are the colours I got using Nettles to dye my yarn.   I used copper and allum as mordants and the brown is copper and the green allum.   Nettles are a very traditional dye plant and give good results which are pretty dye fast for natural dyes.  It took me nearly 2 hours to prepare the nettles and I used both tops and roots and only got stung  a few times!   The end product is 200 grams of both colours.  I am pleased with the colours as I had looked on line and it seemed that other people had got very weak colours and I was worried as it is a little early in the year and we have had so little sun.