Turmeric dye fabric

9th January 2019 Just a quick catch up while everything is still fresh in my mind!! When my lovely creative friend came to stay for the weekend in November she asked if I had ever dyed using Turmeric, I hadn't but I have now and still have some solution left to do a little more..... ...scraps of fabric including old linen, recycled cotton lawn(from my old and worn nightdress), scrim, muslin and an open weave cotton.... ....these scraps were boiled in a white vinegar/water solution for about…

Note before reading: This blog was written in 2017, when I was studying for my MA (hence the Harvard referencing!). Where needed, I have edited these posts to correct any factual inaccuracies. This post was last edited Jan 2025. Please note that turmeric is a fugitive dye, meaning that the colour

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