tips

This week: How much of a fresh madder root do you use??

This week: Water-saving tips when mordanting and scouring

This week: Is iron safe for babies, mordanting with tannins and getting a lighter hue and does liquid rhubarb like cotton?

This week: What’s all this pH talk with indigo vats and cruelty free color for yarn

This week: We posted about cream of tartar last week and you had questions…

This week: Getting madder to be really red on cotton and does madder root go bad?

This week: Storing indigo from the colder weather, getting grays on protein fibers and indigo soap making

This week: Why you can’t get a deep blue and color shifting madder to be more red

This week: Can you make big batches of iron mordant to store and how to get a light teal with our dyes.

This week: Saxon Blue battles Indigo for light and washfastness and tips for getting olive green.