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

Dyeing with alder buckthorn bark (Rhamnus)

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.

Logwood dye, in three different hues

An overview of natural dye shades

Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer

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

Making wax crayons with earth pigments

Creating deep black hues from natural dyes in four steps.

All about the magic combination of tannins with iron

9 ways to get your natural dye project right

(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 beautiful inks for writing and painting from natural materials.

Improve an eco print flop in 5 minutes

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

Dye experiments using different alum based mordants

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...

testing 7 different yellow natural dyes and their tannin levels.

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

4 Natural Dyes you can use without the need of a mordant. Most natural dyes really need a good mordanting, either aluminium based...

A post about all the different salts available, because I really got confused. In eco printing and natural dyeing we use different salts...

In several previous blogs you have been able to see and read more about the different results in natural dyes when using different...

Using blankets in eco printing