Indigo

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

This week: Fumes from dyeing inside your home and shifting cochineal

This week: Let’s talk indigo…

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

This week: Getting your indigo vat to reduce

This week: Storing indigo from the colder weather, getting grays on protein fibers and indigo soap making

This week: Why you can’t get a deep blue and color shifting madder to be more red

This week: Info to make a dried indigo leaf vat and wait, can you use indigo for hair and soaps??

You never know what people can and will do with the recipes and dyes we have for sale on the Botanical Colors site. When we saw what Allison Lutes (@fieldwonderful on Instagram), did with John Marshall’s “How To  Dye With Fresh Indigo”all we wanted to do was dye for days.

This week: Woodblock printing with indigo and what’s the best type of pot to use for an indigo vat?