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      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Fructose Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Iron Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Henna Indigo Vat
      • Frequently Asked Questions About Indigo
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      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Acetate
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      • How to Mordant with Symplocos
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Indigo

Green Recipes using Indigo for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

This week: Botanical Colors founder Kathy Hattori with her own musings and color recipes inspired by The Art and Science of Natural Dyes by Joy Boutrup and Catharine Ellis

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Indigo Vat Felting Fine Wool Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY


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

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Is the 1-2-3 Vat Safe Indoors? for FEEDBACK FRIDAY:

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

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Does my Indigo Vat have a Lifespan? Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

This week: Let’s talk indigo…

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Saxon Blue Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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Indigo Vat Dye Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

This week: Getting your indigo vat to reduce

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Storing Indigo Vats for the Winter: Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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Indigo Vat is Too Light Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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Powdered Indigo for Hair Dye? Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

image courtesy of John Marshall

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

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Field Wonderful’s Allison Lutes Tries Fresh Indigo Leaf Dyeing

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.

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    • New To Natural Dyes?
    • Creating Color With Kathy Hattori
    • Recipes
    • CURATED COLOR : Indigo
    • How to Dye with Indigo
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Fructose Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Iron Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Henna Indigo Vat
      • Frequently Asked Questions About Indigo
    • How to Scour
    • How to Mordant
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Acetate
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Potassium Sulfate
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Sulfate
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Triformate
      • How to Mordant with Symplocos
      • How to Mordant with Tannin and Alum
      • How to use Iron Powder (Ferrous Sulfate)
    • How to Dye with Natural Dye Extracts
    • How to Dye with Raw Materials
      • Cochineal Insect Instructions
      • Dye Flower Instructions
      • Dye Mushroom Instructions
      • Fruitwood Chips Instructions
      • Logwood Chip Instructions
      • Madder Root Instructions
      • Marigold Flower Instructions
      • Oak Gall Instructions
      • Onion Skin Instructions
      • Osage Orange Sawdust Instructions
      • Pericón Instructions
      • Pomegranate Peel Instructions
      • Rhubarb Root Instructions
      • Safflower Instructions
      • Sappanwood Sawdust Instructions
      • Walnut Powder Instructions
    • How to Dye With Liquid Natural Dyes
      • Frequently Asked Questions About Aquarelle Liquid Natural Dyes
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    • How to check pH
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