This week: Expanding color profiles with Symplocos and “aluminum potassium sulfate?”
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: A detailed answer on non-toxic alternatives to mordanting
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This Week: Reusing symplocos for mordanting and considering just what a “chemical” is.
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How to Mordant with Symplocos
We are happy to offer symplocos (Symplocos cochinchinensis) dried leaf powder as a plant mordant from Indonesia. The fallen leaves are rich in alum from endangered forests. As a result, we support a sustainable crop rather than felling trees for their lumber. As natural dyers, we have access to various plant-derived tannins for mordanting options. […]
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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: What is the best natural fixative for cotton? All tannins (chestnut, tara, […]
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