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This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was all about Botanical Colors’ Founder/President, Kathy Hattori for a Q&A. Watch the video Q&A HERE. …and here are a bunch of questions Kathy didn’t get to that she’s answered: I would like to know how to work with a lump of logwood extract that got damp. maybe in a blog […]

FEEDBACK FRIDAY has meant so much to Kathy and I, and we know it means a lot to you too. We so appreciate all the emails and notes you send weekly about how they help you through this time. So why not kick off a little series with some of your love letters that make […]

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?