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      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Fructose Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Iron Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Henna Indigo Vat
      • Frequently Asked Questions About Indigo
    • How to Scour
    • How to Mordant
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Acetate
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      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Sulfate
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      • How to Mordant with Symplocos
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      • How to use Iron Powder (Ferrous Sulfate)
    • How to Dye with Natural Dye Extracts
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Tannin extract

Why is My Tannin Mordant so Brown? for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

This week: why is my tannin mordant brown?

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How Long do I need to dye? Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

How long do I need to dye?

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

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Green or Blue Indigo Powder differences for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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How Much Dye Powder to Make Thickened Ink Paste? Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

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

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Aluminum Acetate

How do I Mordant with Iron? Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

This week: It’s all about mordanting…

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Natural Dye Book Recommendations: Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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Green Recipes using Indigo for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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Is the 1-2-3 Vat Safe Indoors? for FEEDBACK FRIDAY:

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

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Whole Madder Root

True Red with Madder Extract: Questions for FEEDBACK FRIDAY

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

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  • Dye Instructions
    • New To Natural Dyes?
    • Creating Color With Kathy Hattori
    • Recipes
    • CURATED COLOR : Indigo
    • How to Dye with Indigo
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Fructose Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Iron Indigo Vat
      • How to Make a 1-2-3 Henna Indigo Vat
      • Frequently Asked Questions About Indigo
    • How to Scour
    • How to Mordant
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Acetate
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Potassium Sulfate
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Sulfate
      • How to Mordant with Aluminum Triformate
      • How to Mordant with Symplocos
      • How to Mordant with Tannin and Alum
      • How to use Iron Powder (Ferrous Sulfate)
    • How to Dye with Natural Dye Extracts
    • How to Dye with Raw Materials
      • Cochineal Insect Instructions
      • Dye Flower Instructions
      • Dye Mushroom Instructions
      • Fruitwood Chips Instructions
      • Logwood Chip Instructions
      • Madder Root Instructions
      • Marigold Flower Instructions
      • Oak Gall Instructions
      • Onion Skin Instructions
      • Osage Orange Sawdust Instructions
      • Pericón Instructions
      • Pomegranate Peel Instructions
      • Rhubarb Root Instructions
      • Safflower Instructions
      • Sappanwood Sawdust Instructions
      • Walnut Powder Instructions
    • How to Dye With Liquid Natural Dyes
      • Frequently Asked Questions About Aquarelle Liquid Natural Dyes
    • How to use Print Paste Thickener
    • How to check pH
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