FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Getting madder to be really red on cotton and does madder root go bad? Every week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple…
This week: Getting madder to be really red on cotton and does madder root go bad? Every week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple…
…madder extract is a blend of the two madder varieties. Our whole madder root is Rubia tinctorum and the ground madder root is Rubia cordifolia. The red shade in madder…
…runs clear. Dry away from the sun. Coral recipe using liquid madder extract: Shake bottle of liquid madder well and measure liquid madder at 5% wof. Dilute the measured dye…
This week, we’ve got video from our live FEEDBACK FRIDAY featuring Jamie Bourgeois & Madeleine McGarrity talking madder and water quality. This particular FEEDBACK FRIDAY puts a spotlight on our…
…color. Madder Madder (Rubia tinctorum) is one of the oldest and most frequently used traditional dyestuffs known to man. It has extensive history in the Middle East, Turkey, India and…
…Make a dye bath with 8% madder extract of your fiber and 1% calcium carbonate. This means if your fabric is 200g , you would use 16g of madder extract , add the…
Ingredients Mordanted Cotton Bandanas Madder Extract – 4g Calcium Carbonate – 1g Soda Ash – 1g Skill Level Easy / Beginner / Newbie! PREP 15 mins DYEING 90 mins and/or…
…pomegranate will make blue and seafoam green colors. Saxon blue and madder will make russet red and purple colors. Madder and cutch will make a variety of red-orange and coral…
…chalk is used in madder root to help develop the red color in the dye. You may also come across instructions using citric acid in madder root, which seems to…
…The fermentation vats can be done with soda ash rather than lime Q. Do you lime your madder bed? I have read madder grown in limey soil is red-er. A….