tips

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.

This week: We go indigo vat heavy.

This week: Muting oranges and reds from eco-printing and using three types of logwood for different impacts.

This week: Tips for keeping yarn soft when dyeing with madder and the eternal question of how to keep yarn untangled when in process.

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