Lusan-Leighis - Healing Plants - Indigo Fade Bog cotton ink and acrylic on paper

ink and acrylic on paper

flowers or stencils to personalise your designs

or 'Granny's garden'

which had many uses including being made into an ointment for burns

Lusan-Leighis - Healing Plants - Indigo Fade Bog cotton ink and acrylic on paperThis print is part of an ongoing study into the folk medicine of the Highlands. It explores the ways people turned to local plants for healing and reflects a time when knowledge of herbs and their protective, curative powers was woven into daily life. This print features, Crios Cu Chulainn, Meadowsweet which was traditionally used for treating fevers and headaches, Slan lus, Ribwort Plantain which was used on cuts and abrasions and was said to stem