Rosella flowers (or tea) – use red section of the flower/bud only. If using tea – double handful (X 4 if using fresh rosellas. Add a handful of salt to the mixture. Can add more tea/flowers after approximately 20 mins.
Blood grass root – haemodorum species. Loves a sandy soil, fire. An acid red colour; add alkali and it goes green; goes redder, rather than purple when dried in the sun.
- Great on Pandanus and Gymea lily. Lift with bud of root.
- Cut long root off and remove anything that is not red on the root.
- Pound to a mush. 1 litre water to 4 – 5 dessert spoons bloodwood mush.
- Put mush into cold water and work through well with hand before heating.
- Check by looking at water – it should be coloured a little before heating.
- Loosely coil fibres/grasses into circular shape and loop to hold in shape.
- Weigh fibres down so they are totally submerged