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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Scouring + Mordanting 101

    by Amy DuFault on May 15, 2020

    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 […]

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  • Q & A: Round Up of Mordanting + Scouring 101

    by Amy DuFault on May 15, 2020

    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” […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mordanting Fabric Before or After Indigo Dyeing

    by Amy DuFault on January 17, 2020

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

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  • Cutch extract FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Channeling Champagne on Silk

    by Amy DuFault on January 10, 2020

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

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on January 3, 2020

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

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  • Quebracho Rojo Extract FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on November 22, 2019

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

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  • Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary

    by Amy DuFault on November 12, 2019

    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 […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on September 27, 2019

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

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  • Whole Madder Root-Rubia Cordifolia FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on August 9, 2019

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

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on July 26, 2019

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

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