Simple Resist Paste Technique with Indigo.
With this simple indigo resist technique I will teach you how to create a beautiful marble effect on white textiles
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A week of Natural Dyeing and Botanical Printing in the Netherlands
Two great textile workshops in the Netherlands
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How to make your own Aluminium Tri-formate mordant
How to make your won ATF mordant from scratch
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The Sukumo Indigo Vat: A Time-Honored Tradition in Dyeing Aizome.
Sukumo indigo holds a special place as a time-honored dyeing technique. Derived from the leaves of the Polygonum tinctorium plant, Sukumo...
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How to create the darkest blacks with tannins and ferrous sulfate.
If you have been reading my blogs you have seen a thing or two about creating dark shades using the magical collusion of tannins with...
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What are Tzitzit? (including how-t0)
There have been a lot of posts from me on social media about Tzitzit, and people are asking me left and right: what are Tzitzit. So here...
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Storing your Natural Dyes and Mordants Safely
Just now, I received an email that made me scream in horror: Hello this is a silly question but, I accidentally ate some of this ...
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Natural Dyeing: The 157 Natural Dye Recipes of Paul Gout
Re-dyeing 18th century dye recipes by Paul Gout in Montpellier, France
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"Dookrollen", The jewel of the Dutch linen cabinet.
Linen, a versatile and eco-friendly fabric, has a long-standing tradition of production in the Netherlands. The first flax cultivation...
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How to Dye Fabrics Pinks with Birch Bark
Birch trees are deciduous trees that belong to the Betulaceae family, which also includes alders and hazels. There are approximately 60...
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Chlorophyllin, what is it, and how to dye fabrics with it?
There are no true one-step greens in natural dyes. It is either a khaki or moss-green of sorts by post-mordanting a yellow dye with...
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Dyeing with Kermes
The rarest dyes, part of a series of (now) rare natural dyes, see also the blog about Murex and Kakishibu. Kermens is an insect-derived...
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Kakishibu - Persimmon Tannin Dye
A blog in the series "The rarest dyes", see the blog about Murex dyeing here. Persimmons (Latin: Diospyros kaki) are a fruit with a long...
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How to use Symplocos, a plant based alum mordant.
Try Symplocos for a 100% plant based dye process and stunning new shades. In the second half of the 19th century, botany was extremely...
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Natural Dyeing and EcoPrinting with Rhatany Root
natural dyeing and eco printing with rhatany roots
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Natural Dyeing with Mangrove Tannin - Ceriops tagal
natural dyeing with ceriops tagal, mangrove tannin
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Genipa americana, the mystical blue Jagua from South America.
Jagua powder for natural dye projects.
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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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