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The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe

"But why are you putting up a recipe here Suzanne? Is this not a site about natural dyes?" You are 100% correct. But it is also Rosh...

Book review: In Search of Wild Silk

Karen Selk has written the ultimate love letter of wild silk. Karen Selk is a textile artist, teacher, writer, and entrepreneur dedicated...

A Tradition of Natural Dyes in Oaxaca - Mexico (part 1)

In the summer of 2022, I visited Mexico for almost a month. I started with a visit to Mexico City and Cuernavaca, then moved to San...

A Tour in the New Studio

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...

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...

7 Different Natural Yellows And An Iron Test

testing 7 different yellow natural dyes and their tannin levels.

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...

9 reasons your natural dye project went wrong.

9 ways to get your natural dye project right

Dyeing with Bark Dyes

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

10 minute DIY project with scraps

10 minute DIY tea light holder from scraps

Red Eucalyptus Eco Prints

Red prints with Eucalyptus

Fermentation and Solar Dyeing, the ultimate slow dye.

Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process

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.