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Sunday Visit: Monica Medeiros of Bricolage Press

For Sunday Visit, Botanical Colors sits down for an interview with a luminary in the natural dye, textile and art world. This week we visit with Monica Medeiros of Bricolage Press. Learn about Monica’s history of print making and how she blends her love of letter press with natural dyes. Grab a cup of tea and settle in to learn about someone you never knew! Catch up on all our Sunday Visits here. Tell us about your origin story? How did you first find the medium of natural dyes? I started natural dyeing in earnest when I started gardening and trying … Read more

Sunday Visit With Botanical Colors’ President Kathy Hattori

We are so excited to announce that Botanical Colors was awarded one of five technical assistance grants from Fibers Fund, a project of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and Fibershed with Mission Driven Finance. All five grants were given to support and grow U.S. fiber, textile, and dye businesses. Botanical Colors joins Oregon-based Fibrevolution profiled in the SAFSF Fibers Roadmap Case Studies. Both businesses have helped inform the development of the Fibers Fund from the beginning. The next set of grants supports a critical new group of businesses for the Fibers Fund, the Black Fiber Cohort. This … Read more

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Iron in The Water & Indigo Flowers Not Blooming

This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: How iron in your tap water changes color, temperamental indigo flowers and what’s the function of wheat bran?

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

This week: What kind of dye pots should you use, do liquid dyes need a mordant and how to shift color with iron

madder root in different forms on a pile of deep red fabrics and yarns

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

This week: Liquid dyes for silk flower making and what’s up with those red marks when dyeing with madder?

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

This week: Making a powerful indigo vat for a 5 gallon bucket

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

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

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

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

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

Each week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple and complex questions that we thought might be worth sharing. Here are a handful from this week answered by natural dyer in chief, Kathy Hattori, Founder of Botanical Colors: 1. When scouring fabrics, is it ok to use a washing machine (hot water setting) if the fabric is too large (approximately 1 yard) for the stockpot or does it always need to be simmered in the pot on the stove? Will you see a difference in terms of cleanness of the fabric? Cleaning the fabric prior … Read more

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

Each week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple and complex questions that we thought might be worth sharing. Here are a handful from this week answered by natural dyer in chief, Kathy Hattori, Founder of Botanical Colors: I’m having trouble getting alum to dissolve. Even at 10% the solution was cloudy. This time I tried making a paste with boiling water but it still feels pretty crunchy. I’m amazed at how much pigment washes away. Using acid dyes I am used to seeing very little to no pigment in my wash water. I’m doing … Read more