This week: Why you can’t get a deep blue and color shifting madder to be more red
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Can you make big batches of iron mordant to store and how to get a light teal with our dyes.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Saxon Blue battles Indigo for light and washfastness and tips for getting olive green.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: We go indigo vat heavy.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Muting oranges and reds from eco-printing and using three types of logwood for different impacts.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
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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3 Tips to Lower Water Use When Natural Dyeing
Growing Blue reports that 2.5 billion people (36% of the world population) live in water-scarce regions and more than 20% of the global GDP is already produced in risky, water-stressed areas. Given today’s accelerated pace of human development and the slow pace of managing issues as complex as water resources, tomorrow’s challenges are already […]
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5 Things to Know Before Choosing Chemical Dyes
Sustainable design often means a concerted effort to really dig into the details of one’s supply chain but the number of variables to track can be truly overwhelming. One point that is often overlooked in the fashion industry is how fabrics are dyed and treated. In fact, for many designers, there is a fundamental disconnect […]
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