natural dye

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.

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 […]