Indigo Dye Plants

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

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

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

An overview of natural dye shades

Red prints with Eucalyptus

Dyeing green with logwood and weld

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

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

Madder Crop History in the Netherlands

All about the magic combination of tannins with iron

Logwood dye, in three different hues

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

Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer

Creating deep black hues from natural dyes in four steps.

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

Dyeing with alder buckthorn bark (Rhamnus)

Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process

Making wax crayons with earth pigments

9 ways to get your natural dye project right

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...

Improve an eco print flop in 5 minutes

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