natural dye

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

This week: Urine vats, keeping your indigo vat alive and can you fix color with sea salt?

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

This week: Cochineal for more than textiles and how long does it keep, and what to do about a murky alum bath

This week: Is iron safe for babies, mordanting with tannins and getting a lighter hue and does liquid rhubarb like cotton?

This week: Dye ratios to water, re-mordanting something already mordanted and blue yogurt??

This week: What’s the difference between green and blue indigo and perfecting natural dye paint thickening

This week: Brittle fabrics from mordanting and scouring and a how-to on thickening dye extracts to print

This week: Making your own color recipes, the difference between tannin and mordant and how we get “good” color

This week: It’s all about mordanting…