top of page
Our Blog
Home | Our Blog
Search
4 types of aluminium mordants & recipes for use.
Dye experiments using different alum based mordants
Make Your Own Ink From Plant Materials
How to make beautiful inks for writing and painting from natural materials.
Setting Up A Hydros Indigo Vat
Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer
World Wide Slow Dye Jars
Work Wide Slow Dye Jars
Compound colours; Indigo and Weld greens
Some colours (especially light fast) are hard to create with natural dyes, certain shades of purple, orange and greens. For these shades...
Fermentation and Solar Dyeing, the ultimate slow dye.
Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process
Mordants and tannins. Assists and modifiers.
Mordants, tannins, assists and modifiers in natural dyeing and eco printing, what are they, and what are they not.
Rhamnus frangula (Alder Buckthorn) on cotton
Rhamnus frangula on cellulose textiles
Dyeing fabrics with Alder Buckthorn
Dyeing with alder buckthorn bark (Rhamnus)
Green without indigo, using logwood and weld
Dyeing green with logwood and weld
Printing with natural dyes
History and practical use of natural dye pastes for modern textile printing.
A Madder History, Rubia Tinctorum Growing in the Netherlands.
Madder Crop History in the Netherlands
Prune de Monsieur, the French Mordant for Logwood
Logwood made with a mordant called prune de monsieur, extracted from 18th century recipes.
Tannins, Ferrous Sulphate, and using an Iron Blanket.
All about the magic combination of tannins with iron
As promised; logwood black
Creating deep black hues from natural dyes in four steps.
Logwood Campeche, from purple to blue from one dye bath.
Logwood dye, in three different hues
Sappan Reds and Purples
Sappan wood (Brazil wood) how-to for textile dyeing
Dyeing with Rhubarb Roots
Dyeing methods and samples for Himalayan Rhubarb for golden browns and brick reds.
Create Gorgeous Teal with Green Indigo
Low Impact Dyeing as a new way to create impressive green blues.
bottom of page