natural dyeing and eco printing with rhatany roots

natural dyeing with ceriops tagal, mangrove tannin

Jagua powder for natural dye projects.

How to create perfect reds from madder

A blog post in light of the webinar I presented in October 2021. If there is anything I have learned about building a business, it is...

You may know how I started working from my home, then occupied a spare bedroom and eight months ago moved out of that room to a small...

Murex dyes for purple and blues from antiquity to today

Making soaps with natural dyes

Indigo Dye Plants

Sappan wood (Brazil wood) how-to for textile dyeing

Low Impact Dyeing as a new way to create impressive green blues.

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

An overview of natural dye shades

Red prints with Eucalyptus

Dyeing green with logwood and weld

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

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

Madder Crop History in the Netherlands

All about the magic combination of tannins with iron

Logwood dye, in three different hues

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

Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer

Creating deep black hues from natural dyes in four steps.

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