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This week: We posted about cream of tartar last week and you had questions…

This year’s Pantone Color of the Year is a bright and lively coral shade called Living Coral (Pantone 16-1546).  It’s a mid-tone shade and the natural dye version of it is very popular and easy. We like how madder extract will give you a beautiful shade. We are teaming up with the Woods Hole Film […]

This week: How to tell if you should scour your garments and do Aquarelle dyes work on cellulose fibers?

This week: It’s all about mordanting…

This week: Feedback on natural dye books to add to your reference library and what’s the deal with Singapore indigo mold?

This week: How to deal with indigo crocking

This week: Expanding color profiles with Symplocos and “aluminum potassium sulfate?”

This week: Botanical Colors founder Kathy Hattori with her own musings and color recipes inspired by The Art and Science of Natural Dyes by Joy Boutrup and Catharine Ellis

This week: the power of iron, dyeing with liquid dyes and can you dye synthetics with natural dyes?

This week: Indigo dyeing without felting wool and what comes second and third in a 1-2-3 indigo vat?