indigo vat

This week: Indigo dyeing without felting wool and what comes second and third in a 1-2-3 indigo vat?

This week: Saxon blue vs. indigo on plant fibers and overdyeing linen

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: Getting your indigo vat to reduce

This week: Lots of questions on the 1-2-3 Indigo Vat!

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

This week: Mordanting like Native Americans once did, mobile natural dyeing and fresh leaf indigo vs. extract.

This week: Are Botanical Colors yarn rings causing reactions in dye baths and can you mordant with cold water?

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: Is there any way to remove iron from fabric to brighten it […]

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 […]