mordanting

This week: Tackling “madder dust” and brightening logwood.

This week: Mordanting with wheat bran and what is pre-reduced indigo?

This week: mordants mixed with print paste thickeners and what’s up with lac dyes and citric acid?

This week: Muting oranges and reds from eco-printing and using three types of logwood for different impacts.

This week: A step by step on how to avoid indigo spots from the dye vat.

This week: What kits are good for dyeing vintage linens and can mordanting cause streaking if not done properly?

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: I would like to be able to make variegated yarn from a […]

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: I am curious if there is a way to thicken the liquid […]

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 type of tool or method do you suggest to use in […]

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: I really want to get a deep red what should I use? […]