natural dye

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…

This week: Feedback on natural dye books to add to your reference library and what’s the deal with Singapore indigo mold?

This week: Botanical Colors founder Kathy Hattori with her own musings and color recipes inspired by The Art and Science of Natural Dyes by Joy Boutrup and Catharine Ellis

This week: Fumes from dyeing inside your home and shifting cochineal

This week: Getting madder to be really red on cotton and does madder root go bad?

This week: Storing indigo from the colder weather, getting grays on protein fibers and indigo soap making

This week: How to keep yarn soft when natural dyeing it, what’s the difference between our logwood dyes and how to get bubblegum pink

This week: Can you make big batches of iron mordant to store and how to get a light teal with our dyes.

This week: How to start a natural dye garden, where to train in natural dyeing and how to extract color from eucalyptus.