mordant

This week: Getting your holiday red on

  This week: Pungent wool and husbands, and ratios of extract to fabric.

This week: A detailed answer on non-toxic alternatives to mordanting

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

This week: You want a deep red and a dark blue and we deliver on how to do that.

This week: Are Botanical Colors yarn rings causing reactions in dye baths and can you mordant with cold water?

This week: Why your indigo smells weird and can Aquarelle dyes be used in bath and body products?

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. A note from Kathy: I hope you all had a peaceful Thanksgiving […]

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: What is the best natural fixative for cotton? All tannins (chestnut, tara, […]

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: How do you keep dyes from bleeding into non-mordanted areas? I am […]