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Mordant Monday: Morinda Roots and Our Time With Threads of Life

May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

Sunday Visit: Lindsay Degen of Degen Knitwear

May 18, 2025May 14, 2025

Mordant Monday: Overdyeing: Indigo First, or Indigo Second?

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025

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The Indigo Henna Vat with Shibori Techniques Taug

The Indigo Henna Vat with Shibori Techniques

Taught by Kathy Hattori

Indigo is the fabled blue of legend, history and culture and has fascinated artists and scholars for centuries. Indigo is the most popular dye that we carry and there are different ways to make an indigo vat for dipping. One of our favorites is the 1-2-3 Henna vat, where henna, this unique natural dye and body tattoo (mehndi) paint plays an integral part of an indigo vat, yielding beautiful results.

Join me as I instruct you how to create the henna vat in a 5-gallon bucket, and we’ll spend the session dipping, observing and creating beautiful dark shades. I’ll demonstrate five shibori techniques that will allow you to create beautiful patterned fabric. I’ll demonstrate the secrets to deep color, how to balance the vat, scaling to larger vats, and other tips.

You will leave this class with a clear understanding of how to build a henna vat, dip, create shibori patterns, put the vat to bed and store it.

Workshop date: Saturday, June 14 from 10AM-1PM Pacific.

We will send you the Zoom link prior to the workshop.

You will have video access until December 1, 2025.

A thank you to @threadsoflifebali for their luscious Indigo vats.

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For today’s Mordant Monday ( we have no idea wha

For today’s Mordant Monday ( we have no idea what day it is) we are going to share with you how the Threads of Life introduced us to their red color, Morinda citrifolia, a shrubby tree that takes many years to grow. Morinda plays a key part in the Balian color palette and is the main red source in natural dyeing in the region. The Balinese do not normally use red sources like madder root or cochineal, like in other parts of the world. The Morinda plant is difficult to grow and coaxing the color from the plant is tricky. The best color comes from the root of the tree, and requires a delicate harvesting process to ensure the trees live on and you can take healthy cuttings. To read more about the process click below! introduction to their red color, Morinda citrifolia, a shrubby tree that takes many years to grow. Morinda plays a key part in the Balian color palette and is the main red source in natural dyeing in the region. The Balinese do not normally use red sources like madder root or cochineal, like in other parts of the world. The Morinda plant is difficult to grow and coaxing the color from the plant is tricky. The best color comes from the root of the tree, and requires a delicate harvesting process to ensure the trees live on and you can take healthy cuttings. To read more about the process click below!

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A Sappanwood Spotlight. As we're traveling in So

A Sappanwood Spotlight.

As we're traveling in Southeast Asia, we wanted to highlight our beautiful Sappanwood (suoh) sawdust. It is native to SE Asia and India and makes a rich, pinkish red when calcium carbonate is added to the dye bath. It is one of the “exotic” red wood dyes. People traded it along the Silk Road and medieval dyers often used it. When used from 50-100% on the weight of fiber (WOF), the color is a rich deep red on wool and the color is easily modified with calcium carbonate, iron or even unmordanted. You can reuse the dye bath and the sawdust until exhausted, creating lighter shades. For details on how to use the sawdust, please visit our how to page.

Sappanwood is also one of the traditional Japanese dyes and we were thrilled with the lovely red shades we achieved on cotton. We used it at 100% wof and had a very strong dye bath for additional shades. Comes in a 100g package.

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Online Workshop: Chromatic Transformations: Natura

Online Workshop: Chromatic Transformations: Natural Dye Chemistry and pH-Responsive Color Shifting on Cotton & Silk – August 9th, 2025 with @caramariepiazza
  Starts at 12pm PST/3PM EDT  Ends at 2:30pm pst/5:30pm EDT
 Online Via Zoom : You will receive a PDF with the zoom link after purchase. Once the date nears closer to August, Cara will send the class curriculum and PDF.

This workshop will be recorded and available for online viewing until March 15, 2026.

Originally Cara’s workshop on creating cosmic night sky patterns, Cara has now modified this workshop to include an entire range of tannin bases, along with other dyes that are susceptible to being modified with simple kitchen chemistry. A great addition to Twilight Tannins, you will build and create swatches on both Cotton & Silk in this workshop. Cara will guide you through methodical approaches to dyeing and how simple changes in pH can create stunning, shifting colors on fabric.

What This Workshop Is About
Natural dyes have a unique magic, terroir and alchemical properties. Many of them change color depending on their chemical environment. In this class, you’ll learn how to work with these dyes in a thoughtful, hands-on way, experimenting with acids and alkalis to shift colors and create beautiful, otherworldly surface designs inspired by our galaxy. Has anyone seen the new image of IO?! , Jupiter’s Moon? @galaxies

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