Page 4 – Botanical Colors

Petal Pushers Natural Dye Sock Kit

Petal Pushers Natural Dye Sock Kit We have designed possibly the easiest, most fun and magical natural dye kit to date. This is the perfect gift for a newbie dyer. Simply add water and let magic take its time. Get a few and have a party with friends! It would also make a great stocking stuffer (pun intended) for the holidays. This kit comes with a pair of Mordanted Bamboo Socks, (women’s crew length, size 9-11) and a generous sprinkling of our logwood chips, organically grown marigolds and ground madder roots. Sometimes we’ll add in a few fun accents like … Read more

Organically Grown Sulfur Cosmos Flowers

Organically Grown Sulfur Cosmos Flowers This year’s crop comes from Kara Gilbert of Vibrant Valley Farm! Sulfur cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) is a member of the cosmos family. It is a real treat to have in the natural dye garden. This is another New World native, indigenous to Mexico and Central America. The vigorous annual readily self-seeds, attracts pollinators and yields masses of bright orange flowers. You can use them either fresh or dried. Add the Organically Grown Sulfur Cosmos Flowers directly into the dye bath and watch as they make a wonderful, sunny orange shade that brightens the winter palette, … Read more

Black Hollyhock

Black hollyhock, also known as Black Mallow, is a bit of a grandstander – all beautiful and lush and deeply pigmented blossoms that can be fragile in terms of wash and lightfastness. And for the color? It’s like a grand science experiment as well as somewhat unpredictable whether you will achieve a purple, a blue, a gray or a green. However, they are all lovely colors and a treat to work with them! Our hollyhock blossoms are organically grown and deep blackish purple. They’re very interesting as a bundle dye blossom as well as for the dye pot. Sara Buscaglia … Read more

Organically Grown Marigold Flowers

We love how marigold makes a beautiful and easy color that captures summer even when the weather is cold and gray. As a familiar garden plant, they brighten flower borders and are a companion plant in organic gardening. The marigold (Tagetes erecta) is native to Central America. The Aztecs used it as a flavoring ingredient for cacao and it was important in Aztec rituals. In Mexico, marigold is also referred to as “Flor de Muertos” (Flowers of the Dead) and used in the Dia de Muertos festivals and ceremonies. The deeply scented and brightly colored Mexican marigold is believed to … Read more

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Onion Skins

Sold in 50g packages. Onion skins are such a beautiful dyestuff and gift from the kitchen. They are often one of the first natural dyestuffs used with new dyers and in classrooms. We remove the brown papery peels when we’re cooking and tuck them away until we have enough for a dye bath. In the dye pot, the smell of onions evoke a pot of soup simmering on the stove. The color yield is a warm gold to rust to green and depends on the onion skin color, how much you use and if you use iron in the dye … Read more

The Easy 1-2-3 Fructose Indigo Kit

The Easy 1-2-3 Fructose Indigo Kit The 1-2-3 fructose indigo vat is one of our most popular vats for its ease of use and good, strong colors. We made things easy to start your new indigo adventure with this kit that has enough pre-measured indigo and auxiliaries to make a rich vat in a 5-gallon bucket. We’re also including 4 22 inch cotton bandanas that you can dip. The bundle is packaged in an organic cotton bag, that can also be dyed! Experiment with gradation dyeing, shibori, or get into the indigo master groove and dip a piece of fabric … Read more

Symplocos Plant Mordant

Symplocos Plant Mordant We are happy to offer symplocos (Symplocos cochinchinensis) dried leaf powder as a plant mordant from Indonesia. The fallen leaves are hyperaccumulators, rich in alum from endangered forests. As a result, we support a sustainable crop rather than felling trees for their lumber, or supporting industrial mining. As natural dyers, we have access to various plant-derived tannins for mordanting options. However, there are few alum-accumulators available to us in commercial form. Symplocos offers an exciting alternative. The Plant Mordant Project offers natural dyers a unique opportunity to make reliable colors 100% from plants. Powdered leaves from symplocos … Read more

The Botanical Colors Beginner’s Dye Kit

The Beginner’s Dye Kit Discovering the world of natural dyes for the first time is one of those seismic psychic shifts where suddenly everything is a potential dyestuff. That red that came from your farmer’s market amaranth flowers, the seed from your avocado toast that friends say “gives the most amazing dusty rose”, the flowers dropping onto the streets and sidewalks leaving stains of red, purple and yellow…the possibilities are endless. Your mind is zinging and you wonder if that color could change the color of your clothing, but how to begin experimenting? The Beginner’s Dye Kit is a curated … Read more

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel We love all things mushroom and are very pleased to offer a limited edition screen-printed flour sack towel from June & December, a dynamic nature-based goods company in Michigan, who celebrate all the ways that nature connects us. The towel is 100% natural, ecru-colored flour sack cotton, machine washable and soft and absorbent. The charming mushroom print includes all sorts of edible mushrooms. Enjoy in your harvest kitchen, or perfect as a gift. – 25” x 26” towel – 100% natural, unbleached flour sack cotton (light ecru background) – Screen printed with eco-friendly inks – Towel … Read more

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks are ready for the dye pot.