Discover the art of ice dyeing with our comprehensive guide at Textile Indie. Learn the differences between ice dyeing and tie-dyeing, explore the time required for this unique craft, and get tips on using different dyes, including Rit and Procion. Understand color splitting in dyeing, and find out the best practices for prepping and rinsing your fabric.
Introductory notes: The search for hidden colours, forms and textures is for me the lure of eco dyeing and eco printing, and a form of art. Eco dyeing and eco printing are essentially direct contac…
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This blog post contains a step-by-step approach of how to dye yarn with dandelions. Although they are often considered weeds, dandelions have
How to make natural dye using food from your kitchen. Simple and easy to do with things like red cabbage, black beans, turmeric, and coffee.
Natural Dyeing Tutorial. Learn how to use red cabbage to obtain beautiful purples, greens and blues with organic cotton yarn.
How to dye with goldenrod
Natural dyeing is an ancient tradition & techniques behind this art hardly vary globally. Read the article to know more about natural dyeing than most people.
Learn how to make natural dyes for fabric using ingredients that you already have around! Have fun experimenting to get beautiful colors and shades!
A small list of the best books and websites for learning how to dye fabric naturally with plant-based materials.
Discover the process of dyeing with this Natural Dye Pulling (Tie Dyeing) DIY. This project is great to do with kids and is part of our Kids Lab series.
It’s no secret that tie-dye has been trending since the start of social distancing/quarantining. I wanted to take it a step above and dye my clothing with natural dye!
We have been experimenting with making dye from lichen with excellent results. Click through for our step by step instructions.
Marigolds are one of the easiest flowers to experiment with due to accessibility and a simple dye process, yet here I am, 15 years into dyeing, using them for the first time. One of my 2018 g…
Today I want to share my experience on natural dyeing with amaranth with you. I grew the amaranth ‘Hopi red dye’ variety from seed for the...
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!
I recently stumbled upon a dyeing project, using tissue paper (gasp), on Pinterest and for days, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It seemed too good and easy to be true. After much experimentation, I’m…
Hey creative mamas! Have you ever thought that it was possible to get your kids right into nature through a fun crafty activity? Eco print with natural dyes will do just that. It's totally safe,
I recently dyed yarn with avocados for the first time and I can’t believe I waited so long to try this out! I shared the entire experience and step-by-step tutorial on Instagram here and it continues with rounds 3 and 4 here! I absolutely fell in love with this process. It’s simple, easy, and so...
This article contains an overview of natural green dyes that can be used to dye both yarn and fabric. The first color that comes to mind when
Tea is rich with tannin (good for gripping onto fabric), is inexpensive, and attaches well to cotton and linen. It typically gives you a light brown color if you don’t use any color modifiers. You can use an iron modifier on the fabric after you dye it with the tea, which will shift your colors to grey, and increase our fabric’s color- and lightfastness. At the iron sulfate stage, you will be able to experiment with different dipping and folding techniques to create patterns on your fabric.
How to make natural dyes from food. Turn your food scraps into all natural dye to color Fabrics, Paper, Frosting. Easy natural dye recipe
Anyone who can make a pot of tea can dye a skein of wool or yard of plain linen to whatever color they want, using commonly found plants.
How to Dye Fabric Using Plants. A list of 83 plants {and directions!} on how to dye fabric using plants from your garden.
Learn how to extract dye from acorns, and use it to achieve a beautiful range of natural color, including tans, browns, and blacks!
In this blog post I’ll share with you my first experiment with fresh leaf indigo dyeing on cellulose fibres. I’m in love with this pretty shade of teal! I didn’t know if it would work on cellulose as I’ve read that it’s best on protein fibres, but I’m thrilled with the results. I’ve been growing...
Nature has such amazing colors and so many gorgeous layers and color combinations. Have you ever wondered if you could dye yarn with a particular herb or other plants nearby you? Growing up I loved to read and in several of my book adventures were people that had created dyes out of the everyday nat
In this post I want to highlight the important topic of mordanting and help you chose which mordant to use for your natural dyeing project.
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One of my favourite plants to dye with in the spring is the stinging nettle – it’s one of the plants I most look forward to. The leaves give me a soft grey-green hue at this time of year (maybe you get a slightly different colour?) – the colour just feels so fresh and “alive”...
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It started with avocados. "Remember when people were dying fabric with the pits and skins, like, three or four years ago? I tried it and became so obsessed
Mordants used in natural dyeing. Defining mordant such as Allum, Copper, Tin, Iron and Chrome. Protein and cellulose fibers
Easy Shibori Techniques to Try. DIY: How To Shibori Dye Tutorial
If you want to use natural dyes in your projects and on your fabrics, you need...dye! Grow your own plant dyes to get dye from flowers.
I grew up in woods filled with white oak trees. The big beautiful trees would drop their tiny capped seeds each season, covering the ground with a blanket of acorns. As I have experimented more with natural dyeing, I have discovered acorns produce incredible colors in the dye bath. On their own, the
❧Hand dyed ice dye geode with fun dark rainbow color palette. ❧ I do these in one batch at a time, so each shirt is one of a kind. Look at photos to see what each size looks like. Shirt pictured is the shirt you'll get. ❧Size chart can be found in listing images. ❧Fabric is cotton and provides some stretch.
Dyeing yarn with rosemary is a great way to get started with natural dyeing. Rosemary is readily available in many regions, even if you
Natural Dye from Plants using Dandelion Flowers - Step by step tutorial for dyeing yarn or fabric with dandelion flowers from your backyard.
We have been experimenting with making dye from lichen with excellent results. Click through for our step by step instructions.
Using 3 simple reverse tie dye techniques, you can transform t-shirts, bandanas, pillowcases, and more. All with a common household item.
Sharing some of our favorite ways to dye fabric - from indigo to turmeric to hibiscus leaves. Learn How to use natural dyes on fabric!
Natural dyes that don't need mordant. Discover the reason why you can avoid the use of a mordant while using these 5 natural dyes.
If you’re reading this, you most likely saw an “Easy DIY Natural Dye” project on Pinterest but are now surrounded by mushy dye pots and soggy fabric, mid-primal scream, and wondering what the hell went wrong. I got you, girl. Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and let’s unpack 15 Reasons Why Your DI
6 Yarn Dyeing Techniques. Learn how to dye yarn with these 6 different color patterns including Solid, Speckled, Variegated and more.