Botanical Colors

This week: Dyeing cotton paper with cochineal

This week: Getting madder to be really red on cotton and does madder root go bad?

This week: Getting your holiday red on

This week: Getting your indigo vat to reduce

This week: Substantive dyes and checking the pH of your vat

This week: Interesting questions on pre and post-treatments for color and lightfastness

This week: Storing indigo from the colder weather, getting grays on protein fibers and indigo soap making

  This week: Pungent wool and husbands, and ratios of extract to fabric.

This week: Why you can’t get a deep blue and color shifting madder to be more red

This week: Coaxing madder root to be more red and more mordanting questions…