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Myrobalan Extract

Myrobalan (Terminalia chebula) is a common dye throughout India. It grows primarily in the foothills of the Himalayas. It is an upright tree with small oval leaves and lovely bright yellow flowers. We often employ it as a mordant prior to creating brown and black on cotton fabrics. Use a higher percentage of myrobalan to yield a brownish yellow. Use a lower percentage to yield a light buff color. Myrobalan extract overdyed with indigo makes a beautiful teal color. 50g of myrobalan extract will dye approximately 500g (1.1 pounds) of fiber to a dark yellow shade. For more details on … Read more

Sappanwood (Suoh) Sawdust

Sappanwood (suoh) sawdust is native to SE Asia and India and makes a rich, pinkish red when calcium carbonate is added to the dye bath. It is one of the “exotic” red wood dyes. People traded it along the Silk Road and medieval dyers often used it. When used from 50-100% on the weight of fiber (WOF), the color is a rich deep red on wool and the color is easily modified with calcium carbonate, iron or even unmordanted. You can reuse the dye bath and the sawdust until exhausted, creating lighter shades. For details on how to use the … 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

Dyes of the Américas Sampler Kit

Many of the most storied and legendary dyes are native to the Americas and were a prized supply and source for the dye houses of Europe. We’ve created our Dyes of the Américas sampler kit to showcase these beautiful colors. Each dyestuff is native to North, South or Central America and all are used in textile arts today. Indigenous civilizations used many of these dyes long before European conquest. This updated kit contains sample sizes of logwood, cochineal, osage, pericón, and coreopsis along with a brief description of each dyestuff and its origin. The color yield from these dyes are: … Read more

Buckthorn Berry Extract

Buckthorn (Rhamnus saxatilis) is also known as Persian Berry. This is a strong, warm yellow dye extract that combines well with other dyes to create gold, green and orange. We use buckthorn extract at 5% wof for wool and cotton and got very rich shades, and you can increase the amount of dye up to 10% for a more brilliant shade. Both animal and plant fibers take the dye well and buckthorn also shifts to a rich olive shade when iron (ferrous sulfate) is used at 1% wof as a post bath. Use up the exhaust dye bath with other mordanted … Read more

Chlorophyllin Green Dye

Let’s talk about chlorophyllin green dye. Although chlorophyll is the most common green plant color in the natural world, it is tricky to use as a dye. To create green as chlorophyll in its raw state is not stable for textile coloring. That’s why grass stains fade to buff and deciduous leaves lose their chlorophyll and change to brilliant red and gold in the fall. The vivid green of the natural world is a photosynthesis engine but not necessarily a robust dye. There is however, a preparation where chlorophyll green dyes fibers and that is by using chlorophyllin. Chlorophyllin is … Read more

SOLD OUT The Nerd’s Guide To Mordants With Kathy Hattori In New Hampshire!

Sign up for The Nerd’s Guide To Mordants on the Sanborn Mills Farm website. $700, Aug 14, 2024 – August 18, 2024 (9am – 5pm) This is the nerd’s guide to mordants – what they are, why they are important and how they are used in natural dyeing. Everyone wants to create long-lasting and beautiful plant color and the best way to do that is to mordant properly. The class will experiment with the most popular plant-based tannins and alum accumulators, mineral salt mordants and other binders to see the effects on animal and plant fibers. Each mordant variable will … Read more

Aquarelle Tannin Liquid

Aquarelle Tannin Liquid is an easy to use liquid natural dye that is considered a “light” tannin. Liquid tannin comes from gall nuts, which contain approximately 50-60% tannin. When used as a mordant, it does not significantly alter the color of other natural dyes. It creates a soft purple color with iron or a light buff by itself. For more details, please see our page on how to use liquid dyes. Each Aquarelle liquid natural dye is pre-extracted from a leaf, root, bark or other natural source. They combine easily and produce beautiful shades. Thicken with print paste thickener. After … 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

Signed Copies of Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy

Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy: A High-Country Guide to Natural Dyeing and Making Heirloom Quilts from Scratch Artist and quiltmaker Sara Larson Buscaglia invites readers to her Colorado farm to learn the secrets—and beauty—of making natural dyes from foraged plants and stitching natural-fiber quilts by hand. Learn to make naturally dyed quilts by hand with Farm & Folk founder Sara Larson Buscaglia’s beautiful aesthetic, informed by the extraordinary landscape surrounding her farm. Her creative practice centers on simplicity, working with nature, and using naturally derived materials and processes—and she is sharing that practice for the first time in this book. … Read more