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Do You Know How To Mordant Cotton Like a Pro? Amy Doesn’t.

Ok, Amy here and I just got back from a week in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I always take Botanical Colors’ Wool Gauze with me when I travel to sample local plants and see what kind of color is all around me. This time I brought the wool gauze and mordanted 10 organic cotton bandannas. The wool gauze was amazing and soaked in color like a champ but the bandannas? They laughed at me every time I tried to add color. I actually called Kathy in the middle of the vacation to say “what the heck am I doing wrong???” … Read more

Video From FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Jessie Mordine Young

Last week we had textile artist and educator Jessie Mordine Young. We love all of Jessie’s projects but were really drawn to her “A Weaving a Day” series where she is weaving 365 individual pieces to document her practice. She says: “On January 1st, 2023, I will embark on my next long form weaving project, one that is far more ambitious than anything I have done previously in my creative career and truthfully, in my life. I will create one woven drawing each day for an entire year. One woven artwork per day, for 365 days. This is my promise.” … Read more

Dyes Bleeding into Unmordanted areas FEEDBACK FRIDAY

Each week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple and complex questions that we thought might be worth sharing. Here are a handful from this week answered by natural dyer in chief, Kathy Hattori, Founder of Botanical Colors: How do you keep dyes from bleeding into non-mordanted areas? I am finding that excess dyes deposit into white areas and I can’t seem to get them to wash out. Keeping undyed areas intact really depends on the technique you are using. If you are doing shibori work, it’s important to create tight resists. A loose resist … Read more