🌈A Spectrum of Color from food waste & food dyes by @thedogwooddyer Be sure to check out her profile for great tutorials. Tapping a tiny waste stream at home just may be the EASIEST way to begin natural dyeing for ANYONE who has always wanted to try. 🍽️ As holiday meal season approaches, Learn everything you’d ever want to know on the very approachable gateway to dyeing: food & food waste color! ✨A Year in Natural Dyes✨ & my 🥕Food Waste Dyeing Lesson Download🥕has it all! Where I share all...
Dye Yielding Plants List for the Natural Dyer
Learn what to use to naturally dye fibers, fabrics and yarns with this list of natural dye yielding plants. Flowers, leaves, barks, roots, bugs and kitchen scraps that make beautiful colors. Dye material options, tutorials and information to get started with your natural dyeing adventures.
Natural Red Dyes for Yarn & Fabric
This article contains an overview of natural red dyes that can be used to dye both yarn and fabric. Red is a very powerful and strong color. It is actually the first color that humans perceive after black and white. In the middle ages, red become the color of regal majesty and power [1]. But how can we create such a vibrant color with natural dyes? There are several options to dye yarn and fabric in different shades of red and we will explore them in detail.
What is a Mordant?
In this blog post I want to highlight the important topic of mordanting and help you chose which mordant to use for your natural dyeing project. Mordants are essential if you are dyeing either protein or cellulose fibers with natural dyes. Therefore, I will explain in detail what a mordant actually is and how to use it. A mordant or dye fixative is a substance which is used to set dyes on fibers. It forms a coordination complex with the dye which attaches to the fiber.
👉🏼✨Comment FLOWER & I’ll send you a list of my favorite flowers for natural dyeing including specific varieties not mentioned in the video. 🌷 Determining what makes a flower suitable for dyeing is rooted in its phytochemical makeup. Certain flowers possess dye constituents with the molecular structure capable of binding onto fabric, thus making them ideal candidates for dyeing. Conversely, other flowers lack these specific constituents, rendering them ineffective for dyeing purposes. It’s th...
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