tannins

This week: Dyeing with fugitive color and pre-making dye extracts for a later date

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

We created the Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary as there are so many terms and techniques in the natural dye space and unless you work in a natural dye house full-time or have been doing dyeing since time immemorial, you’re not apt to know everything. We created our Botanical Colors Natural Dye Glossary of terms […]

This week: Water-saving tips when mordanting and scouring

This week: Too many topics to list, just read!

This week: Substantive dyes and checking the pH of your vat

This week: Interesting questions on pre and post-treatments for color and lightfastness

This week: A detailed answer on non-toxic alternatives to mordanting

This week: Mordanting like Native Americans once did, mobile natural dyeing and fresh leaf indigo vs. extract.

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, […]