natural dyeing

Join us October 2nd, 9am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern for a live Zoom FEEDBACK FRIDAY with Flora Obscura founder/designer Alison Kelly. RSVP here. Alison is a fiber artist and fashion designer that creates one-of-a-kind textiles for Flora Obscura by adapting ancient natural dye techniques to combine with eco-printing: a process of laying flora directly onto […]

This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was all about Botanical Colors’ Founder/President, Kathy Hattori for a Q&A. Watch the video Q&A HERE. …and here are a bunch of questions Kathy didn’t get to that she’s answered: I would like to know how to work with a lump of logwood extract that got damp. maybe in a blog […]

This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with the Forbes Pigment Collection director Narayan Khandekar. Narayan is the director of Harvard’s Straus Center and the senior conservation scientist, who oversees the Forbes Pigment Collection. Watch the video HERE. The Forbes Pigment Collection is an assemblage of more than 2,700 pigments (and counting!)—is in active use by conservation […]

FEEDBACK FRIDAY has meant so much to Kathy and I, and we know it means a lot to you too. We so appreciate all the emails and notes you send weekly about how they help you through this time. So why not kick off a little series with some of your love letters that make […]

This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: How to channel the color of champagne on silk with a natural dye like cutch

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…