mordanting

This week, we’ve got video from our live FEEDBACK FRIDAY featuring scouring and mordanting. This week Botanical Colors’ Founder Kathy Hattori and our Lead Production Dyer Carrie Gunnersen gave us the 101 on how to get color on our favorite fibers. Here’s the link for the Zoom recording. Kathy and Carrie took us through the […]

In a recent Live FEEDBACK FRIDAY featuring Mordanting & Scouring 101, Botanical Colors Founder Kathy Hattori took on all your questions. Here’s what you asked, and Kathy’s answers: Scouring Questions If I use untreated and unbleached fabric, is it a must to scour the fabric or is washing it enough? If you mean by “untreated” […]

This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: When overdyeing indigo with weld, mordanting before or after?

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

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

This week: Quebracho rojo gets the spotlight and microwaving wool?

There are so many terms and techniques in the natural dye space and unless you work in a natural dye house full-time or have been doing dyeing since time immemorial, you’re not apt to know everything. We created this glossary of terms so that you can look like a plant dye master and a natural […]

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

This week: softening fibers post-mordanting and how do you get a deep red with raw madder root?

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