The Fructose Vat The fructose 1-2-3 vat is one of the easiest indigo vats to set up and gives good color. I’ve found that it benefits from a few days aging to really develop a consistent and beautiful blue. A fructose vat will give you a clear blue color and is a good choice if […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Indigo for printing and how is calcium hydroxide and tortilla masa linked?
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Great tips for the famous Michel Garcia 1-2-3 indigo vat!
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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: What’s all this pH talk with indigo vats and cruelty free color for yarn
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Getting that indigo vat to work
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: A newcomer to natural dyeing tackles her indigo vat and has lots of questions…
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
Saxon Blue yarn 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 am looking to purchase Saxon Blue to use [...] Continue Reading
