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Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee

Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee We are so excited to host the renowned Korean Textile Artist Youngmin Lee May 1st – 4th, 2025 (Thursday-Sunday) 10AM to 4PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Bojagi are traditional Korean wrapping cloths. They were used to wrap, cover, carry, or store objects in daily life, on special occasions, and in religious rituals. Koreans believe that bojagi can not only wrap an object but can also enclose bok (福, 복, good fortune or happiness). The act of making bojagi also carries wishes for the well-being and happiness of … Read more

Sumac Powder

Sumac Powder (Rhus coriaria) is a traditional tannin for pretreating cottons. The tannin is derived mainly from the bark of the tree, but all parts contain tannin and may be used. Sumac is from the Rhus genus and its scientific name is Rhus coriaria. It’s native to southern Europe and western Asia where it is commonly known as Tanner’s Sumac or Sicilian Sumac. We are fortunate to have number of North American native sumacs including Rhus glaubra, sometimes called Smooth Sumac, and Rhus typhina or Staghorn Sumac, known for its dramatic bright red berry clusters. The staghorn berries were used … Read more

Kakishibu Liquid

Kakishibu Liquid is a full strength solution of the tannin-rich persimmon Diospyros kaki. It is an important color in the Japanese palette and is used as a protective wood stain, an antimicrobial, and provides a slightly crisp finish to fabrics. Japanese parasols are coated with kakishibu dye as a water repellent and katagami paper used for Japanese stencils are dark red brown from repeated soaks in kakishibu to create a strong paper for stencil making. Thanks to John Marshall, we even had kakishibu in a hard candy! The original light brown kakishibu color darkens with exposure to the sun, resulting … Read more

Dried Weld Flowers

We are happy to carry beautiful dried weld flowers from Two Looms Textiles based in Washington State. They are sweet-smelling and very potent. The 100g bag contains a mix of weld flowers, stems and leaves. Use all of the plant in the dye pot. For detailed instructions, please see our how to page. Weld (Reseda luteola) is the most lightfast of the yellow dyes, used by ancient tapestry weavers in Central Asia, Turkey and Europe. Weld is the brightest and clearest yellow flower dye. In combination with iron, weld creates a rich chartreuse, or when underdyed with light indigo, yields a … Read more

Rhubarb Root powder

Sold in 100g packages Rhubarb (Rheum australe or Rheum emodi) root creates beautiful gold all the way to brick shades as it is pH sensitive. It will happily surprise you with an unexpected shade depending on mordant and dye bath pH. A sturdy perennial native to the Himalayas and Nepal, the dye is also a traditional Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Chinese medicinal herb. It can grow up to 10 feet tall with enormous leaves and thick stalks. All parts of the plant will yield a color but the strongest shades come from the roots. This powder has been ground from whole … Read more

Quebracho Moreno

Quebracho colorado (Schinopsis balansae and Schinopsis lorentzii), commonly called quebracho is an evergreen tree that grows wild in South America. It grows mainly in Argentina and Paraguay in dense sub-tropical forests which also include a variety of other trees and vegetation. The name is due to its hardness, and comes from two Spanish words, quebrar and hacha, meaning the axe breaker. In fact, quebracho has been used locally for posts, telegraph poles, bridge timbers, railway ties, paving blocks and for any construction where great durability is desired. Quebracho moreno is high in tannin. It can be used as a tannin mordant or a dye on cellulose fibers. … Read more

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Aluminum Triformate Cold Water Mordant

9/27/24 – Aluminum triformate is on order and expected to arrive within 7 business days. Thank you for your patience! We are pleased to offer a new mordant made from mineral salts called aluminum triformate. Aluminum triformate is a room temperature mordant for all natural fibers including wool, silk, cotton, hemp and linen. It does work best on wool. It also works on a gpL (grams per Liter) calculation or a weight of fiber (WOF) percentage and we’ve used it successfully with both methods. Each of these methods have their advantages for the artisan dyer. If you want to dip … Read more

Madder Extract

Madder (Rubia cordifolia) is one of the oldest and most frequently used traditional dyestuffs known to human kind. It has extensive history in Turkey, India and Iran. There, it is still being used for dyeing knotted and woven carpets. The secret for Turkey red, a deep rich red color, was guarded for centuries throughout Central Asia. In addition, it involved more than twenty steps to create this prized shade. Our madder extract will produce pale pink and peach shades all the way through a deep, wine-colored red. Madder extract dyes to its deepest colors with an alum mordant and the … Read more

50% OFF!!! Cara Marie Piazza Online Class Bundle – Cosmic Nebula, Gravity Ice Dyeing & Back to Black

Cara Marie Piazza – Online Class Bundle It’s hot, you want cool and beautiful projects. We got you covered. This summer, we are discounting our best-selling Cara Marie Piazza workshops. Purchase all three and get half off. These are great workshops to learn a variety of surface dye techniques for your summer dye parties and creative projects. By purchasing the workshop bundle you will receive THREE PDF downloads with Vimeo links and 90-day access to each workshop. We are working on some special new classes behind the scenes, so this offer will only be available for a limited time! The … Read more

Aluminum Sulfate

If you are looking for a less expensive alternative for mordanting, consider aluminum sulfate. This mordant contains the same active ingredient (alum) with a different refining process as aluminum potassium sulfate. It has more irregular-shaped granules (called kibble) that produce near identical results. It is a wonderful mordanting material for protein fibers such as silk and wool. For detailed instructions, please see our how to page. We love that these dye baths may be used either hot or cold, and may also be re-used with the addition of more alum. This allows the dyer to use less energy and conserve … Read more