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  • How To Make Your Own Signature Black Natural Dye

    by Amy DuFault on November 26, 2021

    Want to know how to make your very own signature black natural dye? Here’s a really good black recipe from Kathy to send you into tannin and iron experiments all day…or maybe, for the rest of your life. Black with gallo tannin, iron and logwood is a historical recipe from Europe and creates a warm […]

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  • Seven swatches of blue fabric from very pale on the left to dark navy blue on the right A Deep Dive into the 1-2-3 Indigo Vat

    by Kathy Hattori on November 18, 2020

    Indigo gradation from Aboubakar Fofana’s workshop on indigo.  The vat is a 7gpl fructose vat. Diving into indigo blue We have been working with the 1-2-3 indigo vat for nearly 10 years and over time made some adjustments to the original recipe from Michel Garcia. Here we share a recent experiment where we set up […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on November 8, 2019

    This week: What kind of dye pots should you use, do liquid dyes need a mordant and how to shift color with iron

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on October 31, 2019

    This week: Iron contamination, stainless steel dye pots and overnight in the dye bath? Hmmmm…

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on October 11, 2019

    This week: iron stains, straining and repeat offenders

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on August 16, 2019

    This week: Natural dyes and iron on baby clothing, iron to make black and what’s the best way to do an iron dip?

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on May 18, 2018

    This week: Storing mordanted wool and getting logwood’s rich purple to stay.

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on January 12, 2018

    This week: Muting oranges and reds from eco-printing and using three types of logwood for different impacts.

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on September 29, 2017

    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’ve always used my tap water to dye but have just started […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on September 14, 2017

    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 […]

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