Botanical Colors

This week: Printing with natural dyes and preparing fibers for pro dyeing results

This week: Saxon blue vs. indigo on plant fibers and overdyeing linen

This week: What’s the difference between our logwood extracts and how can you piece together an indigo vat in Peru without all the tools at your fingertips? (This answer is cool.)

This week: Chemical reactions in a mordant bath and liquid dyes for watercolor painting

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