scouring

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

This week: How to tell if you should scour your garments and do Aquarelle dyes work on cellulose fibers?

This week: How do you know when to scour and when dyeing fleece, how can you get a deep green?

This week: Basically everything you need to know for dyeing silk with cochineal

This week: How to keep yarn soft when natural dyeing it

This week: stop bleeding yarns, find the perfect ph for your indigo vat and scouring/dyeing blends

This week: Storing mordanted wool and getting logwood’s rich purple to stay.

This week: You want a deep red and a dark blue and we deliver on how to do that.

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 would like to be able to make variegated yarn from a […]

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 curious if there is a way to thicken the liquid […]