mordanting

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 […]

We created the Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary as 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 our Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary of terms […]

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?