mordant

This week, we’ve got video from our live FEEDBACK FRIDAY exploring natural dye inks with Judi Pettite of Biohue. Here’s the link for today’s recording. This time around we got Judi Pettite, the founder of Biohue to answer questions and talk about how she forages, purchases and grows all the materials for her art as mindfully […]

This week, we’ve got video and questions from our first ever live FEEDBACK FRIDAY! Social distance can’t stop us from talking about what we love to do most.

This week: Dyeing with fugitive color and pre-making dye extracts for a later date

This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: How to channel the color of champagne on silk with a natural dye like cutch

This week: Is it possible to use too much natural dye in a vat, foaming kamala and getting green with myrobalan

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

This week: How to use tannin extract, pros and cons of liquid dyes and mordanting for a big art project

This week: scouring, reducing, hydrating and are fresh flowers better than dry flowers for natural dyeing?

This week: Water-saving tips when mordanting and scouring

This week: Cochineal for more than textiles and how long does it keep, and what to do about a murky alum bath