Improve an eco print flop in 5 minutes

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

(Or your second) Eco printing has been the rage for the past few years. The term minted by eco print guru India Flint has evolved at the...

9 ways to get your natural dye project right

Making wax crayons with earth pigments

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

An overview of natural dye shades

Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer

10 minute DIY tea light holder from scraps

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

History and practical use of natural dye pastes for modern textile printing.

Logwood made with a mordant called prune de monsieur, extracted from 18th century recipes.

All about the magic combination of tannins with iron

If you know my work you know I will always try to go straight to the source of everything; my cochineal comes directly from a small...