This week: Clean dye studios, saturated color and vinegar post-bath for everything?
Botanical Colors
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Indigo Painting + Indigo Vats
This week: Indigo painting and temperamental indigo vats
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Dyeing With Fugitive Color and Pre-Making Dye Extracts
This week: Dyeing with fugitive color and pre-making dye extracts for a later date
Our Plastic Packaging Journey
Botanical Colors has been on a mission to eliminate our single-use plastic packaging. But this has not been an easy journey. Our quest has been fraught with false starts and setbacks and claims that haven’t been exactly true. The hardest part is that as a small company there are some options that are out of our reach. It all started with the basics: what were our options instead of single-use plastic? Could we eliminate 100% of our single use plastic packaging? Does the technology even work with our water-phobic powders? We spoke with eco-conscious packaging companies from Seattle to Israel, … Read more
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Natural Dye Ink for Fiber Painting
This week: How to use natural dye ink for painting on canvases and clothing
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Indigo Flower Pigment & Stripping Color
This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Painting using the indigo flower pigment and how to strip color from a naturally dyed fiber
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mordanting Fabric Before or After Indigo Dyeing
This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: When overdyeing indigo with weld, mordanting before or after?
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
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Too much dye on yarn and which natural dye extracts can be used without mordanting?
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Maximizing color with assists and are liquid dyes prepared like extracts?