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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Indigo Painting + Indigo Vats

    by Amy DuFault on March 5, 2020

    This week: Indigo painting and temperamental indigo vats

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  • Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary

    by Amy DuFault on November 12, 2019

    There are so many terms and techniques in the natural dye space and unless you work in a natural dye house full-time or have been doing dyeing since time immemorial, you’re not apt to know everything. We created this glossary of terms so that you can look like a plant dye master and a natural […]

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  • Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary

    on November 12, 2019

    We created the Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary as there are so many terms and techniques in the natural dye space and unless you work in a natural dye house full-time or have been doing dyeing since time immemorial, you’re not apt to know everything. We created our Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary of terms […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on June 7, 2019

    This week: What’s all this pH talk with indigo vats and cruelty free color for yarn

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on November 9, 2018

    This week: Substantive dyes and checking the pH of your vat

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  • Frequently Asked Questions About Indigo

    on November 17, 2017

    Detailed instructions for the 1-2-3 vat may be found here. Definitions Indigo. Indigo is a pigment from the leaves of the indigo plant called Indigofera tinctoria, one of the oldest dyes known to humankind. It is the only natural plant-based blue and its colorant is present in other plants, including woad (Isatis tinctoria), Japanese indigo, […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on August 11, 2017

    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: 1. When scouring fabrics, is it ok to use a washing machine […]

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  • Research on Natural Dyes That Change Color in Reaction to PH levels of Rainwater

    by Amy DuFault on March 2, 2015

    Just when we think we’ve heard it all, Rain Palette from Dahea Sun aims to provide an easy and poetic approach to visualizing air quality through rainwater and natural dyes. The works Dahea has developed are dyed with natural dyes that will change color in reaction to the pH levels of rainwater and aims to […]

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