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This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Maximizing color with assists and are liquid dyes prepared like extracts?

We created the Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary as there are so many terms and techniques in the natural dye space and unless you work in a natural dye house full-time or have been doing dyeing since time immemorial, you’re not apt to know everything. We created our Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary of terms […]

This week: Water-saving tips when mordanting and scouring

This week: How to deal with indigo crocking

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions About Aquarelle Liquid Natural Dyes Are Aquarelle dyes natural? Yes, the dyes are from natural sources such as leaves, bark, fruit rinds, insects and roots. Several of the dyes are made from food processing waste products, such as pomegranate skins and Ayurvedic medicine. All the dyes and auxiliaries were evaluated for organic […]

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: What is the best natural fixative for cotton? All tannins (chestnut, tara, […]

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: When working with iron on a larger scale, what is the best […]