iron

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

This week: iron stains, straining and repeat offenders

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

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

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

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 […]

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 […]