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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mordanting Fabric Before or After Indigo Dyeing

    by Amy DuFault on January 17, 2020

    This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY: When overdyeing indigo with weld, mordanting before or after?

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on January 25, 2019

    This week: How do you know when to scour and when dyeing fleece, how can you get a deep green?

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on August 10, 2018

    This week: Basically everything you need to know for dyeing silk with cochineal

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on September 14, 2017

    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: Is there any way to remove iron from fabric to brighten it […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on April 14, 2017

    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: Do you have any advice on how to get a consistent grey? […]

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  • Madison Wool and Wildwood Farm Host a Natural Dye Weekend

    by Amy DuFault on April 7, 2014

    We had so much fun this past weekend in Madison, Connecticut at Madison Wool and Wildwood Farm’s natural dye weekend! Participants had their own personal natural dye journeys using both the classical, historical dyes and some surprising new ones (think walnut sludge and pokeberries).  We also worked with some of Botanical  Colors’ ancient raw dyestuffs […]

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  • Today’s color: Weld Yellow

    by admin on October 27, 2010

    I was so shocked when I first dyed with Today’s color: weld yellow.  I had no idea that this eye-dazzling yellow could come from a weedy looking, grassy smelling plant.  All the other yellow dyes I had tried: osage, fustic, pomegranate and myrobalan had been so much more discreet in their yellowness.  Their shades were […]

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