FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mordanting Roundup
This week: Weeks worth of mordanting questions melded into one FEEDBACK FRIDAY! Watch here.
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You Asked, Kathy Answered: Indigo Dark Spots + Hapazome Tips
We get lots of emails from customers about challenges with dyeing and needing Botanical Colors’ President Kathy Hattori’s help. Why not share the learning so we can all benefit? From our inboxes to you, it’s simple: You Asked, Kathy Answered. Email questions@botanicalcolors with your plea for help! YOU ASKED: I have been dyeing with indigo for a number of years and always end up with some inconsistency. I always get some spots that are darker than the whole piece. Similar to what an oil stain on clothing would look like. Any recommendations for solving this problem? Or lightening the dark … Read more
You Asked, Kathy Answered: Sparse Amount Of Indigo To Make A Vat!
We get lots of emails from customers about challenges with dyeing and needing Botanical Colors’ President Kathy Hattori’s help. Why not share the learning so we can all benefit? From our inboxes to you, it’s simple: You Asked, Kathy Answered. Email questions@botanicalcolors with your plea for help! YOU ASKED: In your instructions for setting your vat you add the indigo first, then fructose, then calcium hydroxide, then stir? And with the iron vat the same process? Not stirring until the wetted ingredients are added, in that order? I need to be sure, as I only have a little indigo left! … Read more
From Printmaking to Indigo Vats, Artist Aleksander Wozniak Explores Color
Aleksander Wozniak is a Poland-based artist, printmaker, and teacher at the University of Warmia and Mazury in the city of Olsztyn. He is also the head of an academic printmaking studio, where he teaches planographic printing techniques (stone lithography, aluminium lithography). Though focused on traditional and experimental printmaking, “as a unique source of inspiration and integral element of creative and pedagogic attitude,” Aleksander is also a lover of color and recently tried out our “Easy, Organic Indigo Vat.” Check out his results! Images: Aleksander Wozniak
Field Wonderful’s Allison Lutes Tries Fresh Indigo Leaf Dyeing
You never know what people can and will do with the recipes and dyes we have for sale on the Botanical Colors site. When we saw what Allison Lutes (@fieldwonderful on Instagram), did with John Marshall’s “How To Dye With Fresh Indigo”all we wanted to do was dye for days.
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Indigo Vat pH, Painting & Reusing Mordant Baths
This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: The science of pH and your indigo vat, painting with indigo flowers and reusing that mordant bath
1-2-3 Indigo Vat Preparation Problems for FEEDBACK FRIDAY
This week: Great tips for the famous Michel Garcia 1-2-3 indigo vat!
You Asked, Kathy Answered: Indigo To Get Green + A Ruined Vat
We get lots of emails from customers about challenges with dyeing and needing Botanical Colors’ President Kathy Hattori’s help. Why not share the learning so we can all benefit? From our inboxes to you, it’s simple: You Asked, Kathy Answered. Email [email protected] with your plea for help! YOU ASKED: I am curious how to achieve a light shade of blue green with natural dyes and am assuming it would be dyed first with weld and then over-dyed with a few dips of indigo? Is there a natural dye that will do the same in one step? KATHY ANSWERED: We like to … Read more
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Indigo Master Dyer Aboubakar Fofana
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with indigo master dyer and multidisciplinary artist Aboubakar Fofana. Aboubakar is based in Mali and France and updated us on his latest projects including cotton cultivation in Mali. He also talked about his indigo farm, exhibits and the workshops he is teaching with Botanical Colors this spring and summer. Watch the video recording here: Shop the Finimugu (Malian Strip Cloth) Aboubakar talked about and showed us beautiful images of here. If you don’t know indigo master dyer Aboubakar Fofana, he is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose working mediums include calligraphy, textiles and natural dyes. … Read more