This is a Botanical Colors coral natural dye recipe for a classic, madder color in a soft salmon hue guaranteed to sing you into spring. Dyer’s notes: You can use the same coral natural dye recipe for animal or plant fibers. We recommend mordanting to achieve the best results. Your mordant options are aluminum potassium […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Channeling Champagne on Silk
This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: How to channel the color of champagne on silk with a natural dye like cutch
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: How to keep madder “fast” and is alum toxic?
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Water-saving tips when mordanting and scouring
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Expanding color profiles with Symplocos and “aluminum potassium sulfate?”
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Basically everything you need to know for dyeing silk with cochineal
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Tackling “madder dust” and brightening logwood.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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: Is there any way to remove iron from fabric to brighten it […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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: I just saw that Pantone created Love Symbol #2, an […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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: When do I know when I should stop rinsing my yarn after […]
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