Mordants, Color Changers and other Assists

Here are some simple tips to help you use less water and energy to get the colors you want: 1.  Try some of the innovative dye techniques as practiced by India Flint and Kimberly Baxter Packwood. Both these artists create using low-water and low resource methods that yield surprising and very beautiful results. Each has developed her method of eco-dyeing using windfall and waste materials and the pieces they produce are evocative of the spirit of a leaf or the wild meanderings of decomposing plant matter. 2.  Take up fabric or yarn painting with natural dyes. You use  less water … Read more