
This week: Dyeing with fugitive color and pre-making dye extracts for a later date
Explore the Botanical Colors blog for natural dye recipes, mordanting guidance, indigo techniques, expert answers, workshops and sustainable textile stories.
Botanical Colors has been on a mission to eliminate our single-use plastic packaging. But this has not been an easy journey. Our quest has been fraught with false starts and setbacks and claims that haven’t been exactly true. The hardest part is that as a small company there are some options that are out of our reach. It all started with the basics: what were our options instead of single-use plastic? Could we eliminate 100% of our single use plastic packaging? Does the technology even work with our water-phobic powders? We spoke with eco-conscious packaging companies from Seattle to Israel, … Read more

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