Natural indigo dye

Posts about Indigo written by Catharine Ellis

Natural indigo dye is a major ingredient in many Kilomet109 fashion designs. We harvest different types of indigo and make traditional fabric dyes.

Indigo is one of my favorite dyes to use! I often combine it with natural leaf prints that I create through ecoprinting , or to create beautiful stand-alone designs on cotton baskets , dishtowels, bags, and other items. Dyeing with indigo is not as straightforward as other dyes and there are many

Written by Elisabeth Culshaw I am a natural dyer and I love working with Indigo. It is such a special dye one has to feel grateful for. It takes so much time, patience, energy to produce 1kg of Indigo paste. The Indigo vat is a very special dye pot which creates beautiful blues. I always work with Natural Indigo and I

Cotton is more difficult to dye black with plants than wool. It‘s possible but it takes time. Yet, it‘s budget-friendly & sustainable!

People from all over the world have been making a pilgrimage to take workshops at Tian Taru, an indigo dye studio deep in a lush jungle in remote Bali.

Modern Tie Dye Pattern tutorial uses traditional shibori folding techniques with tie dye to get a fresh look! This video will show you step by step instructions and supplies. #tiedye #shibori #kumoshibori #moderntiedye #tiedyepattern #tiedyedesigns

Indigo Sampler from Selvedge Magazine

INDIGO DYE is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color. Historically, Indigo was a natural dye extracted from the leaves of certain plants and this process was important economically because blue dyes were once rare. A variety of plants have provided indigo throughout history. But, most natural indigo was obtained from those in the genus Indigofera which are native to the tropics, notably the indian sub-continent.

On some days it’s hard to believe how recently we traveled freely worldwide, meeting new people and experiencing new places. Three years ago I attended the natural dye symposium in Madagascar, wher…

This is the best indigo dyeing project – make a set of dish towels to show off a multitude of shibori techniques.

Learn the simple process of making a natural indigo vat using the 1-2-3 method developed by natural dyer and chemist Michel Garcia.

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...

I travel an hour west of Tokyo, to a small mountain village, in hopes to learn as much as I can about the indigo dyeing process in one day. I’m meeting Bryan Whitehead and visiting his studi…

At this time last year, The Art and Science of Natural Dyes (Schiffer Press) was published. Joy Boutrup, my co-author, and I submitted the completed manuscript almost two years ago. During these la…