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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on January 3, 2020

    This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Too much dye on yarn and which natural dye extracts can be used without mordanting?

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  • Whole Madder Root-Rubia Cordifolia FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on November 30, 2018

    This week: Getting madder to be really red on cotton and does madder root go bad?

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mordanting Roundup

    by Amy DuFault on June 8, 2018

    This week: Weeks worth of mordanting questions melded into one FEEDBACK FRIDAY!

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on July 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: I am trying to dye large pieces of both linen and wool […]

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  • Hints & Tips for Natural Dyers: How to Minimize Indigo Crocking

    by admin on October 22, 2011

    1. It’s supposed to rub off. That’s why blue jeans fade. 2. Certain cultures attribute indigo crocking to its authenticity and prize the way that excess indigo comes off on the hands or body. I found a description from Duncan Clarke  of Adire African Textiles on how West African cultures dye and prepare indigo cloth: […]

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