Botanical Colors

This week: Weeks worth of mordanting questions melded into one 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. This week, we thought we’d curate as many indigo questions as we could pull from FEEDBACK FRIDAY’s past to give you something worth bookmarking. Of course, all of your burning questions […]

This week: A newcomer to natural dyeing tackles her indigo vat and has lots of questions…

This week: Storing mordanted wool and getting logwood’s rich purple to stay.

This week: Concentrated color on cotton and how does Hide Glue protect while not interfering with natural dyeing?

This week: Are natural dyes really compostable and besides eating rice, can we dye with it?

This week: Bundle dyeing with zinnia flowers and a spotlight on, and recipe for, versatile wattle dye.

This week: You want a deep red and a dark blue and we deliver on how to do that.

This week: Mordanting like Native Americans once did, mobile natural dyeing and fresh leaf indigo vs. extract.

This week: What’s the shelf life of mordants and is cold indigo leaf dyeing stronger or weaker than hot?