How to make beautiful inks for writing and painting from natural materials.

Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer

Work Wide Slow Dye Jars

Some colours (especially light fast) are hard to create with natural dyes, certain shades of purple, orange and greens. For these shades...

Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process

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

Rhamnus frangula on cellulose textiles

Dyeing with alder buckthorn bark (Rhamnus)

Dyeing green with logwood and weld

History and practical use of natural dye pastes for modern textile printing.

Madder Crop History in the Netherlands

Logwood made with a mordant called prune de monsieur, extracted from 18th century recipes.

All about the magic combination of tannins with iron

Creating deep black hues from natural dyes in four steps.

Logwood dye, in three different hues

Sappan wood (Brazil wood) how-to for textile dyeing

Dyeing methods and samples for Himalayan Rhubarb for golden browns and brick reds.

Low Impact Dyeing as a new way to create impressive green blues.