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...

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...

natural dyeing and eco printing with rhatany roots

natural dyeing with ceriops tagal, mangrove tannin

How to create perfect reds from madder

Part three in the series about what makes a plant a dye plant

Here are 4 Natural Dyes you can use without the need of a mordant. Most natural dyes really need a good mordanting, either...

Different tannins give different results when eco printing with a ferrous sulfate rich target piece.

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

(Or your second) Eco printing has been the rage for the past few years. The term minted by eco print guru India Flint has evolved at the...

9 ways to get your natural dye project right

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

Red prints with Eucalyptus

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

All about the magic combination of tannins with iron

Creating deep black hues from natural dyes in four steps.