Flowering Currant

So I had a peek at the Winterbourne Dye Project Blog to see what they had been up to in April 2016. Among other plants, they had been dyeing with flowering currants. This is the image of their results, borrowed from their website. Thank you.

I have a flowering currant in my garden, so I rushed out on Friday morning to give it a quick prune.

 I put the clippings into my slow cooker, and stewed them until Monday morning, before straining off the liquid and dyeing with it. These are my results. From the left, as usual. mordanted with alum, copper, alum + tin and alum + iron. Who would have thought a flowering currant would yield these colours?