This week: Making your own color recipes, the difference between tannin and mordant and how we get “good” color
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Saxon Blue battles Indigo for light and washfastness and tips for getting olive green.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Aquarelle Liquid Natural Dyes
Frequently Asked Questions About Aquarelle Liquid Natural Dyes Are Aquarelle dyes natural? Yes, the dyes are from natural sources such as leaves, bark, fruit rinds, insects and roots. Several of the dyes are made from food processing waste products, such as pomegranate skins and Ayurvedic medicine. All the dyes and auxiliaries were evaluated for organic […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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 have been printing with dye extracts on silk. My question is- […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
Saxon Blue yarn 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 looking to purchase Saxon Blue to use [...] Continue Reading -
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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: Do you have any tips on getting a crimson red on cotton […]
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How to Get Pantone’s 2016 Color(s) Of The Year With Natural Dyes
For the first time Pantone introduced not one but TWO shades for 2016 Color of the Year: Rose Quartz and Serenity. Pantone describes the colors: Rose Quartz is a persuasive yet gentle tone that conveys compassion and a sense of composure. Serenity is weightless and airy, like the expanse of the blue sky above us, […]
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Liquid Indigo and Saxon Blue
Many long time indigo dyers have been curious about the liquid indigo that I sell that works like an immersion dye. How can it possibly work that way? Traditional vatted indigo is not water soluble and it’s created through a complex set of steps and careful dipping, not in an immersion dye pot. Our liquid […]
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