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Mordant Monday: Q&A

July 14, 2024July 15, 2024

Sunday Visit: The Storytellers Studio Coat with Jody Alexander

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A DYE-A-LONG For Britt Boles Fresh Indigo Class – July 20th in Seattle!

The Nerd’s Guide To Mordants With Kathy Hattori In New Hampshire! August 14 – August 18

Workshop: Experience The Colors of Tangier

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NEW OFFERING! Recording: Foundation Course in Na

NEW OFFERING!

Recording: Foundation Course in Natural Dyes with Kathy Hattori at a very discounted price!!!

We invite you to join us for one of our most exciting classes: A Foundation Course in Natural Dyes. One of the greatest pleasures in exploring natural dyes are the endless possibilities of creating color with plants and flowers. If you’ve been bitten by the natural dye bug, natural dyes will just become a lifetime of learning for you. But first, you need a solid base.

In this online recording, we will learn to create a beautiful and harmonious palette of hues using natural dye extract concentrates. You will see how easy it is combining shades and modifiers to create colors that can work on their own or form a foundation for fun experiments and discoveries. You will learn the tips and tricks that we use in our own practice and production studio and how simple changes can produce surprising results.

The class will work with the dyes and auxiliaries contained in the Botanical Colors Beginner Kit.

We will emphasize how to create beautiful color using the least amount of water and energy possible along with guidance for keeping notes and samples and how to evaluate your results.

It’s easy to become overwhelmed, but there is a method to the natural color world. This is a class that will help you gain understanding and confidence with approaching your natural dye practice. We’ll be with you every step of the way!

We will cover

Scouring
Mordanting
Dyeing
Modifiers – pH color changers and iron
Color overdyes
Format

This is the video of the Foundation in Natural Dyes workshop that was held over 2 days earlier this year. You will receive instructional PDFs to cover how to scour and mordant protein or cellulose fabrics, as well as be able to view the workshop and see what we covered during this recent session.

Details

You will get the most out of the workshop if you are prepared and follow along doing the steps with Kathy while at home. If you find that style is too fast-paced you are welcome to observe and then at your own leisure prepare your work. The workshop will be recorded and available until 12/31/24.

Photo by @benlindbloom

WE HAVE AN EXCITING NEW WORKSHOP! We are thrilled

WE HAVE AN EXCITING NEW WORKSHOP! We are thrilled to host @fieldandgardner Kristin Field this November online!

FIELD & GARDNER’S KRISTEN FIELD TEACHES HER SIGNATURE SHIBORI TECHNIQUE

We first introduced you to Kristin’s incredible work through our social media series Takeover Tuesday. You loved her intricate Eco-print Shibori circles so much, we decided to offer her workshop this fall! Join us online Saturday November 9 from 9-12 Pacific for Shibori Burst Eco-Print. We’ll send you a materials kit, instructional PDF and a link to how to make your own indigo vat if you’d like a refresher!

Kristin grows dye plants like indigo, madder, and coreopsis in her small backyard alongside food and cut flowers. She uses these plants to create naturally dyed textiles and works with natural pigments to make watercolor paints and inks.

Her work values and expresses curiosity, truly noticing the details in the world around you, a desire to know why, and an understanding that there is always more to know and explore.

Sign up on our website or in our stories!

#ecoprint #shibori #coreopsis #naturaldye #naturaldyeworkshop #ecoprinting #dyegarden #indigo

We're bringing back a YAKA from the archives! We'v

We're bringing back a YAKA from the archives! We've got Madder extract in stock and wanted to answer your questions! We also have a beautiful RED recipe on our RECIPES Page! Did you know we even had a recipes page? Head to our LEARN section for ideas!

YOU ASKED: Good morning and thank you so much for this opportunity of free knowledge that you give us. I saw in your madder recipe to put the dye at 145/160 degrees? The recipe says that to make a real red, the temperature must not exceed 80 degrees otherwise it turns brown. But it is also true that in the recipes I have neither sodium carbonate nor calcium carbonate is used. Thank you very much again, your site is always full of very interesting news.

KATHY ANSWERED: Apologies, we did not specify our temperature measurements were in Fahrenheit. The madder extract has been purified so that it doesn’t go brown from red but we still don’t raise the temperature above 160F or 71C.

#madder #extract #naturaldyes #naturaldyeing #botanicalcolors

We love recipe developing and offer this service t

We love recipe developing and offer this service to you! We also offer mordant baths for all scales of business! Would you ever send us a batch of your work!? Let us know below 👇

Pictured is president Kathy Hattori. Photo by @benlindbloom .

We have an aluminum acetate restock! Are you curio

We have an aluminum acetate restock! Are you curious about this vibrant mordant? For today's #Mordantmonday we head into the archives. Learn how to use it, and how it compares to other cellulose mordants.

You can see pictured the crispness it achieves with our madder extract!

#mordant #mordantmonday #alac #aluminum #madder #botanicalcolors #naturaldye #naturaldyeing

We are so excited to offer a pre-order and mycelia

We are so excited to offer a pre-order and mycelial majesty of @bloomanddye ‘s new book!

Pre-order to reserve your copy of the Mushroom Color Atlas book being released on September 3, 2024. The Mushroom Color Atlas is a gorgeous primer on the universe of colors lurking inside fungi.
Illustrated by Yuli Gates.

Equal parts art book, field guide, and color distillation workshop, The Mushroom Color Atlas is a timeless reference that will be used in the studios of artists and designers for years to come. Consider it your invitation to share in the kaleidoscopic wonder of the fungi kingdom!

People are learning all about the pivotal role fungi play in ecosystems and conservation efforts, plus spending time foraging has become a popular activity.

The Mushroom Color Atlas features beautiful botanical illustrations and clear instructions on how to find and positively identify more than two dozen color-filled mushroom species in the wild.

Last chance to sign up for @seaspellfiber ‘s In

Last chance to sign up for @seaspellfiber ‘s In Person Follow-Along for Fresh Leaf Indigo Workshop

Are you interested in using fresh indigo but don’t have time to grow your own?

We have a crop of indigo to share, courtesy of Vibrant Valley Farm and our good friend Erica, and invite you to join our live streaming event in Seattle. We’ll view Britt Boles’ Fresh Indigo Five Ways Zoom workshop as a group, and explore fresh leaf indigo together.

We’ll supply enough indigo and fabric to follow along with Britt and try the techniques that she covers, plus you will leave with your own indigo plant and tons of inspiration for future fresh leaf fun! Admission includes Zoom workshop registration, all materials and light refreshments.

Saturday July 20 from 9:30AM -12:00PM

#botanicalcolors #indigofest #seaspellfiber #indigo #freshindigo #naturaldyeworkshop

TRY OUR LUXURIOUS VINTAGE SPOT WEAVE FABRIC Spot

TRY OUR LUXURIOUS VINTAGE SPOT WEAVE FABRIC

Spot weave is a geometric weave structure that shows off the yarns as they float over the surface of the fabric. Some of these structures resemble Summer and Winter as well. These beautiful, skillfully woven fabrics are perfect for tabletop runners or mats with pleasing neutral combinations of cream, ecru and light taupe colored yarn. All of the hemp in this fabric is grown without pesticides and processed, spun and woven by hand. The cotton yarns are most likely mill spun commercial cotton. The fabric dates from the 1940s to the 1970s and the fabric dyes beautifully.

This fabric would be fantastic for a table runner, placemats, or for cushion covers. This fabric is one of a kind and unused from vintage stock. It may have minor weaving imperfections, small holes, marks and mends, shades or stains or other signs of long storage

#spotweave #dyeables #botanicalcolors #hemp

There is still time to sign up for @seaspellfiber

There is still time to sign up for @seaspellfiber ‘s Online Workshop: Fresh Indigo Five Ways – Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More!
$150.00

We are excited to host Brittany Boles of Seaspell Fiber for an online workshop using fresh leaf indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) and an array of techniques to get the most color out of your precious indigo crop. Brittany is a wonderful instructor and we’re honored to work with her again and offer this workshop. This is our most popular indigo workshop as many people grow Japanese indigo and are looking for ways to capture the beautiful, elusive color.

Do you have a Japanese Indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) patch and aren’t quite sure what to do with it? Brittany Boles has suggestions for using the fresh leaf in a number of ways to extract beautiful colors including a lovely violet from the fresh plants. She experiments with various fibers and techniques that you can try with your own indigo!

What is included in this workshop? In this Intro to Fresh Leaf Indigo Dyeing: Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More, Britt will demo multiple ways to use fresh indigo to extract seafoam blues, emerald greens, and indirubin purples with various natural fibers. As a special bonus, she’ll also show how to use our new Vibrant Valley Blue Indigo Paste with soy and cellulose fibers for beautiful saturated pigment painting!

We’ll start with a brief history of the plant, growing and harvesting tips, and demo methods for achieving blue on protein and cellulose fibers.

#botanicalcolors #indigo #naturaldye #naturaldyeing #freshindigo

We are so excited to have worked with @benlindbloo

We are so excited to have worked with @benlindbloom to get behind the scenes of our new studio. We're so happy to share these photos with you!

“I boiled my cat” and other questions from our

“I boiled my cat” and other questions from our followers...

This week’s Mordant Monday reviews questions from our followers. We offer advice for iron mordanting, tannin and alum turning gray, and a boiled indigo vat (victim of spellcheck) that came to us as “I boiled my cat”.

Also, don't forget Kathy's upcoming workshop @Sanbornmills! A NERDS GUIDE TO MORDANTS! Head to our website to read and learn more!

Every Sunday, Botanical Colors sits down for an in

Every Sunday, Botanical Colors sits down for an interview with a luminary in the natural dye, textile and art world. Grab a cup of tea and settle in to learning about someone you never knew! This week we sit down with @JodyAlexander to learn about her connection to craft, hand stitching and what water means to her. Read more on our blog! The link is in our stories!

An excerpt from our interview with Jody

How has craft and art been a part of your life, were you always an artist? When did you know this was the path you wanted to take?

I have always enjoyed making things. As a kid I drew, painted, made ceramics, and did needlepoint and sewed. As an adult, in my early 20s, I had dropped all of these things but still had an urge to create. When I was in graduate school for Library Science I discovered the book arts: paper making, printing, and bookbinding, and realized that making was what I wanted to be doing. That was my entry back into a creative life, and then about 15 years ago textile arts started consuming my interests. I still make books, usually with fabric lately, and work with paper occasionally. However, fabric is my main medium along with what I can do to it to make it unique to me: natural dyeing, printing, transferring, working with earth pigments, etc.

#jodyalexander #botanicalcolors #handstitching #studiocoat #stencil #indigo

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