The Gardens, Ambassadors of Biodiversity

The 5 Thematic Gardens

The Garden of the Symphony

• The fibres and colours square

This square is dedicated to the plants to be woven (line, hemp…) which gave the first textiles, and to the tinctorial plants (madder, weld, dyer’s wood, etc.) which are the source of natural colouring matters used since centuries by all the civilisations on earth to dye vegetable fibres.

Displayed under the shape of a painter’s palette, the tinctorial plants are regrouped according to the colours obtained by the whole plant or by each different part (roots, bark, leaves, fruits, seeds).