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Tannin Grayscale with Cara Marie Piazza

Tannin Grayscale Online workshop with Cara Piazza Online workshop held on Saturday January 25, 2025 10AM-1PM Pacific / 1 – 4pm Eastern The workshop will be recorded and available for 120 days after purchase. Learn how to create moody gray gradations using our pre-mordanted cotton fabric fat quarters, natural dyes, logwood and a few surprises. Tannins are a bitter and astringent compound found so abundantly in many plants. In food, they serve as the slight pucker in black coffee and tea, and the “oaky” flavor in aged wines. Tannins are used in medicine and for leather tanning. For us, … Read more

THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber We are so excited to host Brittany Boles for a new one day workshop! December 7th, 2025 10AM to 3PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Join us Saturday December 7th from 10am-3pm at Botanical Colors Studio for an immersive workshop with Britt Boles on the art of plant to handcrafted pastel. Learn the history of pastel, binder and fixative recipes, and create your own set of plant-based soft pastels with Botanical Colors premium pigments and natural dye lakes. About your teacher: When … Read more

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel We love all things mushroom and are very pleased to offer a limited edition screen-printed flour sack towel from June & December, a dynamic nature-based goods company in Michigan, who celebrate all the ways that nature connects us. The towel is 100% natural flour sack cotton, machine washable and soft and absorbent. The charming mushroom print includes all sorts of edible mushrooms. Enjoy in your harvest kitchen, or perfect as a gift. – 25” x 26” towel – 100% natural flour sack cotton – Screen printed with eco-friendly inks – Towel size + colors may vary … Read more

Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori

Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori Online workshop held on Saturday January 18, 2025 10AM-1PM Pacific The workshop will be recorded and available for 120 days after purchase. Learn how to create striking color gradations using our pre-mordanted cotton fabric fat quarters, natural dyes, indigo and a few surprises. Tannins are a bitter and astringent compound found so abundantly in many plants. In food, they serve as the slight pucker in black coffee and tea, and the “oaky” flavor in aged wines. Tannins are used in medicine and for leather tanning. For us, they are the natural dyer’s not-so-secret-weapon … Read more

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks. 10-5-24 Availability: These fat quarters have been so popular, we’re a little behind in our production of them. They are in the mordant process now, and should be ready to ship early next week. Thank you for your patience! Continuing our mordanted materials offerings, we are pleased to offer a fat quarter 4-pack, to inspire you to create incredible color combinations using pre-mordanted, organic cotton fabric. Each bundle includes 4 fat quarters, mordanted with gallo-tannin, sumac, cutch and quebracho and aluminum sulfate. This creates four different color bases for color explorations, and if … Read more

Whole Cochineal Insects

Whole Cochineal Insects 100g of Whole Cochineal Insects will dye about 900 grams (2 pounds) of fiber to a deep red shade. For detailed instructions, please see our page on dyeing with cochineal. Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect that invades the nopal cactus and is about the size of a grain of rice with a silvery purple hue. The best cochineal is dark and full of carminic acid. We obtain only the finest grade cochineal on the market. You will also need a small amount of Cream of Tartar for the extraction process. Cochineal is one of the … Read more

Second Series – Naturally Dyed Cotton Fat Quarters

Second Series – Naturally Dyed Cotton Fat Quarters We are pleased to offer a second series of naturally dyed cotton fat quarters from a project we overdyed to make a number of gorgeous colors. This new drop is 100% cotton muslin. All the fabrics are scoured, mordanted and dyed with different natural dye colors. We made a number of natural dye gradations and overdyed some of them with indigo. The result is a beautiful array of distinctive colors perfect for stitching, piecework and patchwork. Each bundle includes 4 fat quarters. Each fat quarter is a generous size: approximately 21×33 inches … Read more

Lac Extract

Lac (Laccifer lacca) extract comes from a scale insect known from antiquity throughout India, Southeast Asia, Nepal and China. The deep red colorant is extracted from a hard resinous crude shellac before it can be successfully used as a dye. So the resin is known as shellac. It is used for lacquer and in addition as a protective covering for wood. Lac dye was used to color silk and dye leather and was mentioned as early as 250 AD. Lac extract is an affordable alternative to obtain pinks, purples and burgundy reds on protein fibers using an alum mordant. However, … Read more

Wattle Extract

Wattle is a member of the Acacia family. People use it extensively in leather tanning as it works very well for even coverage and penetration of skins and pelts for tanning. Australia, South Africa and India grow most wattle. They most commonly extract the Black Wattle to create the dye. Natural dyers use wattle extract as one of the rich tannins to create iron-based grays and blacks or to overdye with indigo to create interesting muted greens. The color is a beige with a pink cast. Additionally, it has a characteristic toasty wood smell. For more information on how to … Read more

Liquid Logwood Extract

We are pleased to offer a new, easy-to-use liquid logwood extract formulation. Logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum) originates from the Yucatan region of Mexico. It is naturalized throughout Central America and parts of the Caribbean. It was also known as Palo de Campeche or Campeche wood. Like cochineal, logwood extract was one of the valuable dyes from the New World. As a result, Spain and England went to war over regions that were lush with logwood trees in an effort to control the lucrative logwood dye trade. Logwood yields a rich, deep purple and was used as a base or “bottom” for … Read more