wool

This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with fiber artist and rancher, Lani Estill. Lani Estill and her family own and operate Bare Ranch, a vertically integrated diversified livestock operation producing cattle, sheep, alfalfa and grass hay. The ranch is in Northeastern California and Northwest Nevada. They practice regenerative agriculture and with the help of partners like […]

This week: Indigo dyeing without felting wool and what comes second and third in a 1-2-3 indigo vat?

This week: Saxon blue vs. indigo on plant fibers and overdyeing linen

This week: Getting your holiday red on

  This week: Pungent wool and husbands, and ratios of extract to fabric.

This week: How to keep yarn soft when natural dyeing it, what’s the difference between our logwood dyes and how to get bubblegum pink

Each week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple and complex questions that we thought might be worth sharing. This week, we thought we’d curate as many indigo questions as we could pull from FEEDBACK FRIDAY’s past to give you something worth bookmarking. Of course, all of your burning questions […]

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

This week: How to start a natural dye garden, where to train in natural dyeing and how to extract color from eucalyptus.

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: I am trying to dye large pieces of both linen and wool […]