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How to Wash Naturally Dyed Fabrics: A Guide for Eco-Conscious Consumers
how to wash your naturally dyed clothes
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How to create a sustainable wardrobe in six easy steps (and why you should care)
If you went shopping for clothes lately, did you notice how many items are now 'cotton-rich', cotton-blends, or viscose derivatives like...
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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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2023 in Natural Dyes
It is almost the end of the Gregorian year. What a year it has been (in many, very conflicting ways). I feel that before I can start...
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Getting Creative When Things Are Hard
Today marks exactly two months since the 'black Shabbat' in Israel. That day I woke up disoriented at 6.30 to sirens and explosions, and...
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How it's going...
Or maybe, how it is not. I am on a strict diet of grief and stress. Mourning, shock and fear are pulling at the hems of our tight knit...
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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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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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Unraveling the Threads of Tradition: Exploring the Ethiopian Jewish Weaving Heritage
Handwoven Fabrics from the Kuchene Community (Beta Israel) in Addis Abeba
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The Color Palette of the Jewish People in Natural Dyes
In my quest to give a more profound, layered meaning to my work, I have been diving increasingly into the history of natural dyes. 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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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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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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