Botanical Colors

2025 Harvest Box: Dye Flower Sampler

2025 Harvest Box: Dye Flower Sampler Ready to dive into making beautiful colors? We are so proud of our ongoing relationships with U.S. and Central American-based farmers and we’re celebrating them with our new 2025 Harvest BoxFlower Sampler! As we continue to meet farmers interested in regenerative agriculture and growing dyestuffs for us (as well steward healthy soil), we want to share them with you. This year’s summer harvest was excellent and we are providing you with a variety of natural dye flowers and sawdust we think you will love for bundle dyeing and eco-printing. Feast your eyes on the … Read more

Holiday Book Bundle

Our Holiday Book Bundle is the perfect gift to stock the natural dyer in your life’s DyeBrary! We’ve grouped some of our favorite titles together so you can get some great holiday savings! Combine these titles and save 10%!

The Studio Essentials Bundle

The Studio Essentials Bundle is the perfect gift for the budding dyer in your life by getting them the essentials they need to start their dyeing practice. We have grouped together the essential mordants, extracts and raw dye stuffs to make a whole rainbow of color. AND, we’ve included The Studio Set Formula Set to inspire them with recipes galore! Save 10% when purchasing all of these items together!

Chromatic Transformations Bundle

We have grouped together all of the tools you need to create beautiful surface design patterns with our modifiers! Based on Cara Piazza’s Chromatic Transformations Online Workshop, we’ve paired together the recording of the class along with our naturally dyed tannin fat quarters for you to experiment with making your own unique cosmic patterns.

Dyer’s Polypore Mushrooms

Dyer’s Polypore mushroom (Phaeolus schweinitzii) is one of the most common mushrooms in coniferous forests and is a dramatic, large flat mushroom, sometimes as large across as 12-14 inches. It’s always a thrill to come across one in the forest, as it is so huge, and the promise of all that color is very enticing. It’s a wonderful first mushroom to try as it contains a lot of color, and it’s easy to shift color with an iron mordant. The color yield is a brilliant yellow, shifting to dark olive green with an iron afterbath. Be prepared with a lot … Read more

4 white hemp-cotton napkins folded in a dark wood bowl

Mordanted Hemp-Cotton Napkin Set

Mordanted hemp-cotton napkin giveaway! Purchase a set of 2 mordanted hemp-cotton napkins and receive a free sample pack of flower confetti to use for bundle dyeing! Each packet contains enough raw dyestuffs to sprinkle over your damp napkins and then roll tightly and steam for 30 minutes! Limited samples available, so don’t delay! Mordanted hemp-cotton napkins are perfect for the holiday table and everyday use. Handwoven from vintage hemp fabric, these are deeply textured, rustic textiles. These beautiful napkins are sturdy, wear well, and get softer and softer. They take color beautifully! Each napkin is fashioned from vintage hemp-cotton fabric … Read more

Pink and purple fabric and dyed mushrooms

Cortinarius Semisanguineus Dye Mushrooms – Limited supply

Cortinarius semisanguineus, also called Surprise Web Cap, is a non-edible dye mushroom that yields a range of oranges and reds on wool mordanted with aluminum potassium sulfate. Cortinarius is part of a globally distributed and huge genus of mushrooms and its semisanguineus name comes from the fact that the red color of the fungus is on its underside. There are over 2000 identified species of Cortinarius. We offer dried Cortinarius semisanguineus caps and stems. These have been responsibly foraged from an experienced collector. Dye mushrooms are often excellent pH indicators, so you can experiment with a little soda ash or … Read more

Lobster Mushrooms – Hypomyces lactifluorum

Lobster Mushrooms – Hypomyces lactifluorum Larger sized bag for 2025! The lobster mushroom is interesting because it is not a mushroom but rather a parasitic fungus that grows on certain species of mushrooms, resulting in a bright orange color. It is an edible mushroom, but our specimens are not to be eaten as we harvested mushrooms that were past their prime and left the perfect ones for another forager’s mushroom risotto. Lobster mushrooms infects a mushroom species, Russula brevipes and causes the outside to turn bright orange-red. The color on wool ranges from a soft peach shade to a deep magenta … Read more

Tapinella Atrotomentosa Dye Mushrooms – Limited Supply

Tapinella atrotomentosa, also called Velvet-footed Pax, Velvet pax-foot or Velvet roll-rim, is a non-edible dye mushroom that yields a range of soft green and purple on wool mordanted with aluminum potassium sulfate. Sometimes dyers also get a chocolate brown. Tapinella is part of the bolete order and the fresh mushroom is covered in a dark brown or velvety black fur. Both the caps and the stems give color. It is not considered edible. We were so fortunate this year to have Jessica G. forage tapinella for us! We offer dried, chopped Tapinella atrotomentosa caps. These have been responsibly foraged from an experienced … Read more

Aluminum Acetate Mordant Bundle – Group & Save

Aluminum acetate is a purified mordant powder that creates bright colors on plant fibers like cotton, linen, hemp, Tencel, viscose and other plant-based fibers. It is an alternative mordant to traditional tannins. Mordanting is an important step in natural dyeing as it helps improve light and wash-fastness. Its purpose is to provide a bond between the fiber and the dye molecule. Without a mordant bond, natural dye colors will fade, change color and wash out. Detailed instructions on working with aluminum acetate are available here. Because recommend using either calcium carbonate (chalk) or wheat bran with aluminum acetate, we have bundled these products … Read more