They are another classic of the natural dye world. Buckthorn berries, Avignon berries, or best known as; Persian berries. Buckthorn...

It is really confusing, when you are just getting started and you are reading up on the blogs: cotton, AA, Euc, Fe dip, Steamed for 90...

testing 7 different yellow natural dyes and their tannin levels.

Using Genista Tictoria, Dyer's Greenweed as a yellow dye source

I was gifted 5 beautiful Persicaria Tinctoria plants by my new friend Hagar in the North of my country. She has been growing a field of...

Dye experiments using different alum based mordants

Different tannins give different results when eco printing with a ferrous sulfate rich target piece.

Improve an eco print flop in 5 minutes

How to make beautiful inks for writing and painting from natural materials.

9 ways to get your natural dye project right

Natural dyes made from different types of wood bark; poplar, chestnut and birch

Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer

Work Wide Slow Dye Jars

Red prints with Eucalyptus

Some colours (especially light fast) are hard to create with natural dyes, certain shades of purple, orange and greens. For these shades...

Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process

Mordants, tannins, assists and modifiers in natural dyeing and eco printing, what are they, and what are they not.

Rhamnus frangula on cellulose textiles

Dyeing with alder buckthorn bark (Rhamnus)

Dyeing green with logwood and weld