This week: Expanding color profiles with Symplocos and “aluminum potassium sulfate?”
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Green Recipes using Indigo for FEEDBACK FRIDAY
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
Different Iron Sulfate Strengths for FEEDBACK FRIDAY
This week: the power of iron, dyeing with liquid dyes and can you dye synthetics with natural dyes?
Indigo Vat Felting Fine Wool Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY
This week: Indigo dyeing without felting wool and what comes second and third in a 1-2-3 indigo vat?
Scouring Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY
This week: How do you know when to scour and when dyeing fleece, how can you get a deep green?
Print Paste Thickener Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY
This week: Print paste thickener
with natural dyes and preparing fibers for pro dyeing results
Differences in Logwood: Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY
This week: What’s the difference between our logwood extracts and how can you piece together an indigo vat in Peru without all the tools at your fingertips? (This answer is cool.)