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  • How To Make Your Own Signature Black Natural Dye

    by Amy DuFault on November 26, 2021

    Want to know how to make your very own signature black natural dye? Here’s a really good black recipe from Kathy to send you into tannin and iron experiments all day…or maybe, for the rest of your life. Black with gallo tannin, iron and logwood is a historical recipe from Europe and creates a warm […]

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  • How To Dye With Marigold Flowers

    by Amy DuFault on July 6, 2021

    Ever wondered how to dye with marigold flowers? The humble marigold makes a beautiful and easy color that captures summer even when the weather is cold and gray. They brighten flower borders and are a companion plant in organic gardening. Marigold (Tagetes erecta) is native to Central America. The Aztecs used it as a flavoring […]

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  • Q & A: Round Up of Mordanting + Scouring 101

    by Amy DuFault on May 15, 2020

    In a recent Live FEEDBACK FRIDAY featuring Mordanting & Scouring 101, Botanical Colors Founder Kathy Hattori took on all your questions. Here’s what you asked, and Kathy’s answers: Scouring Questions If I use untreated and unbleached fabric, is it a must to scour the fabric or is washing it enough? If you mean by “untreated” […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on January 3, 2020

    This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Too much dye on yarn and which natural dye extracts can be used without mordanting?

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on December 13, 2019

    This week: Is it possible to use too much natural dye in a vat, foaming kamala and getting green with myrobalan

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on June 28, 2019

    This week: Cochineal for more than textiles and how long does it keep, and what to do about a murky alum bath

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on September 1, 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 just started natural dyeing and am wondering if you could suggest […]

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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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