This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Too much dye on yarn and which natural dye extracts can be used without mordanting?
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Getting madder to be really red on cotton and does madder root go bad?
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mordanting Roundup
This week: Weeks worth of mordanting questions melded into one FEEDBACK FRIDAY!
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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
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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