silk

This week: Painting silk fabrics with liquid dyes

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This week: Printing with natural dyes and preparing fibers for pro dyeing results

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This week: How to keep yarn soft when natural dyeing it, what’s the difference between our logwood dyes and how to get bubblegum pink

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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 really new to dyeing–is the material to be dyed mordanted […]

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(Image: LightArt) With organic colors and all natural dyes, Kathy Hattori and the Botanical Colors' team demonstrate how LightArt's silk inner layer, for the Bullitt Center flowers, are made. This beautiful installation is now in the entrance of the Bullitt Center in Seattle, WA. Read LightArt's blog post on the collaboration here. Check out this [...] Continue Reading

Okan Arts imports vintage Japanese yukata cottons for adventuresome quilters. Okan Arts, owned by textile and natural dye artist Patricia Belyea, is a home-based shop in Seattle, bursting with over 1,000 bolts of vintage Japanese cotton. Hand-dyed by artisans in Japan from 20 to 50 years ago, the cottons radiate luscious colors and a graphic […]

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“Tea silk considered one of the most well-preserved gems in Chinese silk craftsmanship. Originating from the Ming Dynasty, this fabric was once considered the most luxurious silk. The ’30s became the gilded age for xiangyunsha (the Chinese name for tea silk, also called langchou)—more expensive than gold, it was among the most desired goods by […]

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