natural dyeing

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

This week: Too many topics to list, just read!

This week: We posted about cream of tartar last week and you had questions…

This week: Expanding color profiles with Symplocos and “aluminum potassium sulfate?”

This week: Let’s talk indigo…

This week: What’s the difference between our logwood extracts and how can you piece together an indigo vat in Peru without all the tools at your fingertips? (This answer is cool.)

Using natural dyes is certainly a lot more friendly than using something like Rit but there are ways you can be a lot more efficient in how you use them. Here are some tips we’ve put together for you.

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 am really new to dyeing–is the material to be dyed mordanted […]