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MORDANT MONDAY: To Mordant Or Not To Mordant + Disposing Of Mordant Baths

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Sunday Visit: Katrina Rodabaugh, Mending Matters

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What will you Re:COLOR? Give your garments a new

What will you Re:COLOR?

Give your garments a new life with our Indigo overdye service. We will transform your threads with these beautiful patterns or a solid indigo dye!

Let us know in the comments what colors you want to see next 👇

#overdye #dyehouse #naturaldye #botanicalcolors #indigo

Re:COLOR examples! Our Re:COLOR service has two be

Re:COLOR examples! Our Re:COLOR service has two beautiful hand-dye shibori techniques. Ripple, concentric circles that look like a pebble thrown into a pond, and Yanagi or "Willow" that resemble swaying willow leaves. Great items to send in for these techniques are: T shirts, overalls, coveralls and more! Curious about what we can dye or don't know what to send in? We can also overdye light colored clothing! It doesn't need to start out white. Shoot us an email! Dyehouse@botanicalcolors.com.

Pictures 1 & 2 are Ripple on a T shirt that already had a blue base. , 3 & 4 are Willow.

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MORDANT MONDAY: ( FROM THE ARCHIVES ) To Mordant o

MORDANT MONDAY: ( FROM THE ARCHIVES ) To Mordant or Not To Mordant & Disposing of them safely by our dear friend @amytropolis .

What is Mordanting?

Mordanting is the most important process of preparing fibers to accept color. Using a mordant helps to ensure the most durable and long-lasting colors. With the exception of indigo (as a vat dye, it does not require a mordant), this is not an optional step. However, there are many different mordants you can use. Deciding which mordant to use comes down to the types of fibers you want to dye and how much time or energy you wish to spend. The table we have on this page breaks down the different mordants that we sell and the advantages and disadvantages of each one.

YOU ASKED: I have tried the recipe for mordanting with Alum Sulfate, but I am not sure if its save to depose it down the drain. I've read that its ok to do this as long as the drain does not come out in a waterway, but if I look online I can only find lab-like sites saying alum should be disposed as a hazardous material and shouldn't be poured down the drain. Can you help me out with how to safely dispose of alum and what research or backup information you base this on?

KATHY ANSWERED: Aluminum sulfate is commonly used in wastewater treatment, which is why we state that it can be disposed of in municipal water treatment systems. It is toxic to aquatic life, which is why it cannot be disposed of in a waterway or lake. If you are mordanting, your choices are to save the mordant and re-use it or to dispose of it. If your local government forbids the disposal then you need to dispose of it through hazardous or chemical handling sites. Otherwise, if there is no regulation forbidding its disposal, it can be disposed of in the municipal system.

Head to the blog to read the full article! Also don't forget to check out our HOW TO Pages. We have extensive FREE instructions on our website under the LEARN section.

#mordantmonday #mordant #disposal

SUNDAY VISIT: Katrina Rodabaugh, Mending Matters @

SUNDAY VISIT: Katrina Rodabaugh, Mending Matters @katrinarodabaugh

Sunday Visit is our interview series where we speak with an incredible maker in our community and learn about what makes them tick. Our dear friend Katrina Rodabaugh is an author and artist working at the intersection of sustainability, craft, and design. Using visible mending, natural dyes, and textile redesign in fashion, art, and home. She combines her training in sustainability with her experience in fiber arts to build eco-friendly solutions for modern lives. We sit down with her to learn about her practice.

An excerpt from the Interview:

You also hold an MFA in creative writing. You are a true polymath. How do all of your passions feed into each other? Can you elaborate a little on how you get into your creative headspace?

I just stopped fighting it. Finally. I just turned 48-years-old in January and I think it took me about 35 years to embrace that I’m truly interdisciplinary. When I was in graduate school I felt so much pressure to either prioritize poetry, my major, or prioritize book arts where I was a teaching assistant and getting funding for my degree. I hated feeling like I had to choose—writing engages my head and handcrafts engage my hands. I needed both. I still do. It was my book arts teacher who suggested I was an informally-taught fiber artist. My mom was a hobbyist crafter and I grew up at the side of her sewing machine. This was a really important moment in my creative work where someone with a lot of power, my graduate school professor, suggested that my informal, rural, self-taught, handed-down education in the arts was relevant in my work....

To read the whole article, head to our blog!

#katrinarodabaugh #botanicalcolors #mending #mendingmatters

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