This week: How to keep madder “fast” and is alum toxic?
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Interesting questions on pre and post-treatments for color and lightfastness
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Storing indigo from the colder weather, getting grays on protein fibers and indigo soap making
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5 Tips to Make Natural Dyeing (More) Environmentally Friendly
Using natural dyes is certainly a lot more friendly than using something like Rit but there are ways you can be a lot more efficient in how you use them. Here are some tips we’ve put together for you.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: What’s the shelf life of mordants and is cold indigo leaf dyeing stronger or weaker than hot?
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This Week: Reusing symplocos for mordanting and considering just what a “chemical” is.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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’m an indigo dyer using an iron vat. I keep getting the […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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 do I know when I should stop rinsing my yarn after […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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: Do you have any tips on getting a crimson red on cotton […]
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How to Get Pantone’s 2016 Color(s) Of The Year With Natural Dyes
For the first time Pantone introduced not one but TWO shades for 2016 Color of the Year: Rose Quartz and Serenity. Pantone describes the colors: Rose Quartz is a persuasive yet gentle tone that conveys compassion and a sense of composure. Serenity is weightless and airy, like the expanse of the blue sky above us, […]
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