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This week: Indigo painting and temperamental indigo vats

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This week: Great tips for the famous Michel Garcia 1-2-3 indigo vat!

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This week: Dye ratios to water, re-mordanting something already mordanted and blue yogurt??

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This week: Getting that indigo vat to work

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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.)

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

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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: 1. When scouring fabrics, is it ok to use a washing machine […]

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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

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: After using the 1-2-3 indigo dye vat, do you need to mordant […]

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