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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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7 Different Natural Yellows And An Iron Test
testing 7 different yellow natural dyes and their tannin levels.
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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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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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Fermentation and Solar Dyeing, the ultimate slow dye.
Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process
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Printing with natural dyes
History and practical use of natural dye pastes for modern textile printing.
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A Madder History, Rubia Tinctorum Growing in the Netherlands.
Madder Crop History in the Netherlands
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Prune de Monsieur, the French Mordant for Logwood
Logwood made with a mordant called prune de monsieur, extracted from 18th century recipes.
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Tannins, Ferrous Sulphate, and using an Iron Blanket.
All about the magic combination of tannins with iron
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