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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on May 10, 2019

    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

    by Amy DuFault on February 9, 2018

    This week: Saxon Blue battles Indigo for light and washfastness and tips for getting olive green.

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on June 8, 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: I have been printing with dye extracts on silk. My question is- […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on May 12, 2017
    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

    by Amy DuFault on April 21, 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: 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

    by Amy DuFault on December 15, 2015

    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

    by admin on September 21, 2011

    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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