Make dye and ink from Persian Berries
They are another classic of the natural dye world. Buckthorn berries, Avignon berries, or best known as; Persian berries. Buckthorn...
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Abbreviations in Natural Dyeing and Eco Printing for Beginners
It is really confusing, when you are just getting started and you are reading up on the blogs: cotton, AA, Euc, Fe dip, Steamed for 90...
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7 Different Natural Yellows And An Iron Test
testing 7 different yellow natural dyes and their tannin levels.
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Dyeing with Dyer's Greenweed
Using Genista Tictoria, Dyer's Greenweed as a yellow dye source
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Quick Fresh Indigo
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...
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4 types of aluminium mordants & recipes for use.
Dye experiments using different alum based mordants
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7 Different Tannins and Ferrous Sulfate in Eco Printing.
Different tannins give different results when eco printing with a ferrous sulfate rich target piece.
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Make Your Own Ink From Plant Materials
How to make beautiful inks for writing and painting from natural materials.
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9 reasons your natural dye project went wrong.
9 ways to get your natural dye project right
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Dyeing with Bark Dyes
Natural dyes made from different types of wood bark; poplar, chestnut and birch
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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...
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Fermentation and Solar Dyeing, the ultimate slow dye.
Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process
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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.
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