Black bean dye fabric

Black beans are such easy and affordable way to dye animal and plant based fibres naturally! Achieve gorgeous purple to lavender shade in 3 simple steps!

Ninja Foodi pressure cooker black beans no soak recipe is a healthy side dish you can make in an Instant Pot too with dry beans.

Have you ever wanted to try natural dyeing? It's as easy as raiding your pantry! Check out this step-by-step tutorial for how to dye yarn using black beans to get a gorgeous smokey blue color!

A couple of years ago I’ve already published a tutorial on how to dye cotton fabric blue with black beans using DIY iron mordant and a cold dyeing process. This is now a different method to dye cotton gray blue with black beans. You don’t need to mordant the fabric before dyeing it with black … Continue reading How To Dye Cotton With Black Beans (No Mordant) →

Swatches of merino jersey dyed with hazelnut skins and different modifiers

Natural Dyeing with Black Beans - Part of my Natural Dyeing Series. Step by step tutorial shows you how to dye yarn or wool with black beans.

I finally finished an actual dye! I'm super happy with how it turned out, and plan on doing some cabbage dyeing after work today, w...

When shopping for muslin fabric for sewing test garments, I ended up buying something called “Dyer’s cloth” which was basically an unbleached cotton fabric (I think it’s the…

Hello and happy Friday! I have been experimenting with natural dyes (plant-derived dyes) for a while and a few days ago my friend brought some dry black beans home for dinner- immediately I knew I wanted to try to dye some cotton fabric with the bean water, I mean what a good way to get some dye

Six years ago I did two post on how to dye wool yarn with black beans. As I have moved into dyeing cotton fabric I thought I would write a little updated post. You can read here the part 1 and part 2. I basically I used exactly the same technique, the biggest difference was…