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Make beautiful soap with natural dyes
Making soaps with natural dyes


What makes a plant a dye plant? Part 4: Indigotin
Indigo Dye Plants


9 Top Gadgets that made my eco-print life easier.
9 Top gadgets for eco printing and natural dyeing


Create Gorgeous Teal with Green Indigo
Low Impact Dyeing as a new way to create impressive green blues.


Dyeing with Rhubarb Roots
Dyeing methods and samples for Himalayan Rhubarb for golden browns and brick reds.


Sappan Reds and Purples
Sappan wood (Brazil wood) how-to for textile dyeing


Green without indigo, using logwood and weld
Dyeing green with logwood and weld


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...


A Madder History, Rubia Tinctorum Growing in the Netherlands.
Madder Crop History in the Netherlands


Dyeing fabrics with Alder Buckthorn
Dyeing with alder buckthorn bark (Rhamnus)


Prune de Monsieur, the French Mordant for Logwood
Logwood made with a mordant called prune de monsieur, extracted from 18th century recipes.


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


Logwood Campeche, from purple to blue from one dye bath.
Logwood dye, in three different hues


Setting Up A Hydros Indigo Vat
Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer


Fermentation and Solar Dyeing, the ultimate slow dye.
Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process


Red Eucalyptus Eco Prints
Red prints with Eucalyptus


As promised; logwood black
Creating deep black hues from natural dyes in four steps.


Tannins, Ferrous Sulphate, and using an Iron Blanket.
All about the magic combination of tannins with iron


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.


Shade Card Natural Dyes
An overview of natural dye shades


DIY Mayan Blue and Wax Crayons with Natural Pigments
Making wax crayons with earth pigments


9 reasons your natural dye project went wrong.
9 ways to get your natural dye project right


8 Key Tips for your First Eco Print.
(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...


How-to; Make Ink
How to make beautiful inks for writing and painting from natural materials.
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