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.
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Saxon Blue battles Indigo for light and washfastness and tips for getting olive green.
FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This week: Muting oranges and reds from eco-printing and using three types of logwood for different impacts.
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 at our door. For this year’s Water Quality Month, whether individual, collective, agriculturally focused or industrially inclined, addressing water scarcity begins with you. We’ll call it (cough) the ripple effect. While you work on some possible real-life scenarios for making change, we’ve created 3 tips … Read more
5 Things About Natural Dye Production Vs. Synthetic
We’ve learned a lot over 12 years doing natural dye production for fashion brands so we’ve put together “5 Things About Natural Dye Production Vs. Synthetic .” 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 when sourcing dyed and finished fabrics, even “organic” materials as the information on treatments and finishes are minimal and … Read more