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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

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

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

Field Wonderful’s Allison Lutes Trys 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.

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

This Indigo DIY Dye Project Will Spice Up Any Holiday Table

Image: Kate Miss for Bust Magazine Bust Magazine writes: “The fabric-dye trend is everywhere right now; people are going crazy for tie-dyeing, immersion dyeing, natural dyeing, and of course, shibori. The last one is often mistaken as tie-dye, but it’s actually in a category of its own. Shibori is a Japanese method in which fabric is made into a three-dimensional form via binding, folding, twisting, stitching, plucking, and plaiting; then it’s dipped into indigo dye. You can use any piece of fabric with this technique, but we’ll show you how to create your own shibori table runner and napkins.” Read … Read more

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pH Indicator Strips

We use pH Indicator Strips to measure the pH of an indigo vat. In other words, they help us determine if we need more acidity or alkalinity to balance the vat. We also use pH strip paper with other dyes to measure the pH range of the dye bath. These are extremely useful tools to quickly check your indigo vat or to determine the pH levels of your water supply. Natural dyes colors may be shifted by adjusting the pH of the dye bath. Therefore, our pH strips come in handy when deciding on increasing or decreasing pH. (35 pH indicator … Read more

You Asked, Kathy Answered: Using Madder Root In An Indigo Fermentation 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! This is the same person asking multiple questions. We thought answering in sequence seemed best. Enjoy! YOU ASKED: I am trying to start up and use an indigo fermentation vat mainly because my materials preference is still silk and the alkalinity of organic vats is too alkaline for silk. I purchased some madder … Read more

You Asked, Kathy Answered: Adding More Iron To A Ferrous Indigo 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 made a 1-2-3 ferrous indigo vat, which I have done before with success. This time, I checked the vat after a few days and a good stir, and it seemed weak – there was some reduction, but it wasn’t very strong for the amount of indigo I had put in. … Read more