Natural Dyeing Tutorial. Learn how to use red cabbage to obtain beautiful purples, greens and blues with organic cotton yarn.
I'm sharing how to dye fabric on the blog today. Check out how I dyed IKEA curtain panels to the perfect shade of navy. I'm also sharing the do's and don't's of fabric dying on the blog today.
Lois Ericson shows you how to create uniquely colored and patterned fabrics with ordinary household bleach.
Learn a fun new technique called rust dyeing fabric that uses vinegar soaked fabric and old rusted metal to create gorgeous pieces of dyed fabric.
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.
I'm sharing how to dye fabric on the blog today. Check out how I dyed IKEA curtain panels to the perfect shade of navy. I'm also sharing the do's and don't's of fabric dying on the blog today.
Create amazing prints with the sun! See How to Make Cyanotype Prints on Fabric! It's an easy photographic process for amazing blue art!
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Sharing some of our favorite ways to dye fabric - from indigo to turmeric to hibiscus leaves. Learn How to use natural dyes on fabric!
Tutorial 3 ECO PRINTING BASICS Note that these are my current practices. In your own research and experiments, you may well discover other processes that work well for you. Take what you can respon…
My stash of rusted, tea-dyed, and naturally colored fiber is dangerously low, so I’m going to create rust- and naturally-dyed fabrics!
Learn how to extract dye from acorns, and use it to achieve a beautiful range of natural color, including tans, browns, and blacks!
Learn how to naturally change the shade of your fabric with a tea-dye. It's easy, and anticipation over the results are part of the fun!
How to turn plants like lavender, nettles, goldenrod, and elderberries into natural dyes for fabrics like cotton, linen plus wool and silk. Use this starter guide to begin creating botanical dyes from your garden.
The beauty of plant-stamped fabric lies in the wonderful imperfection of the print. You can add a hand-made touch to your house and print some cushions, tea towels, table runners or bags. Don't worry about your skills, it's really easy! Follow this tutorial to learn how to do that.
Keep things au naturale with this easy tutorial.
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!
Eco dyes, a more sustainable option to reduce the impact of the polluting fashion industry. Experiment with these useful techniques to make your own natural fabric dye.
I took my time when creating these dye samples. I gathered plenty of yellow onion skins to fill my dye pot completely. I added water to my pot, boiled the skins for 30 minutes, and allowed the skins to soak in the bath for a few days. I strained the skins from the bath and added my (pre wet) fabric. I brought the dye bath back to a boil for 30 mins with my fabric, keeping an eye on the surface making sure to release any air bubbles from the fabric. I allowed the fabric to soak in the bath overnight. This amount of time isn't necessary to achieve color results, but it is how and why my colors are so saturated.
Learn how to make natural dyes for fabric using ingredients that you already have around! Have fun experimenting to get beautiful colors and shades!
Fabrics colored with natural dyes have a beauty and subtlety all of their own. Onion and avocado skins, chamomile and birch bark, and nettles and acorns can produce lovely, ethereal colors and effects. The Wild Dyer demystifies this eco-conscious art, focusing on foraging and growing dying materials; repurposing kitchen trimmings; making and using long-lasting dyes; and creating stitched projects. Workspace setup, equipment, and fabric choices and care are all discussed. Beautiful photographs and easy-to-follow instructions illustrate how to make eight exquisite household items, from a drawstring bag to a gardener's smock and a reversible patchwork blanket. The Wild Dyer is a complete guide for both beginners and experienced artists seeking to expand their knowledge of this increasingly popular craft. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781616898410 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Publication Date: 10-01-2019 Pages: 160 Product Dimensions: 7.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)About the Author Abigail Booth is the London-based cofounder of the studio collective Forest + Found. Working across textiles, drawing, and painting, she exhibits her art throughout the world.
Learn how to create a beautiful custom design on silk, or cotton fabric, with this amazing eco printing technique.
At the end of term I sorted a load of rusty needles out of a box at school. Needles do seem to rust faster there – I think it must be the effect of much clutching by hot sweaty little hands. …
Natural Dyes I have spent the last few days experimenting with natural dyes made from plant products. The process has given me a new appreciation for natural colours and fabrics. It has been a fascinating journey as I have tested the validity of different information on the topic and worked with the natural dyes. The information below has been gathered from research and my own findings. What Can Be Used as Natural Dyes? The best thing about natural dyeing is that the ingredients you need are fairly easy to come by. Here are just a few materials you can use (and the colors you’ll get with each). Brown Onion skins (yellow/orange) Red Onion Skins Coffee grounds/tea (brown) Strawberries/cherries (pink) Roses (pink) Lavender (pink) Red cabbage (blue/purple) Hyacinth flowers (blue) Beets (deep red) Iris roots (gray/black) Daylily blooms (red/purple) Artichokes (green) Celery leaves (yellow) Turmeric (yellow) Mulberries/blueberries/blackberries (purples) Red Hibiscus Flower (reds-purples) How to Get Started Straining the dye Step 1: Prepare the Dye Chop your plant or berries into small pieces, measure them, and put them in a medium-to-large pot. Add twice as much water as ingredients (if you put in two cups of plant material, add four cups of water). Bring to a boil, and then simmer for one hour. Strain off the hard materials and keep the “dye.” Keep in mind that the longer you let the materials sit in the water, the stronger your dye is going to be. If you have the time, you can even let it soak overnight (without heat) to get a really concentrated solution. Red Onion Skins Red Cabbage Brown Onion Skins Beets Red Hibiscus Vinegar Fixative Step 2: Prepare the Fixative Once you’ve picked out what you want to dye and you’ve got your dye all ready to go, you have to prepare a fixative for your fabric. This will “fix” the dye into the fibers so it won’t wash out. If you’re using berries to dye your fabric, you should use a salt fixative. Put 1/2 cup salt in 8 cups of water. Put your fabric in here and boil for one hour. If you’re using plants to dye your fabric, you have to use a vinegar fixative. Combine one part vinegar and four parts water, and boil the fabric in the mixture for one hour. When your fabric is done, rinse it out under cold water. Step 3: Dye the Fabric All you do now is place your wet fabric into the dye bath and simmer until the fabric has reached the color and shade you want. The color is going to be a bit lighter once the fabric dries out. Then, wash the fabric separately under running cold water until the water runs clear. Beetroot Dye Red Cabbage dye Brown Onion Dye Red Onion Dye Tea dye Red Hibiscus Dye Turmeric tie-dye Turmeric dyes (with tie dye) Sample natural dyes Sample natural dyes Red Hibisus colour after rinsing Red Cabbage dye pre-wash Beet pre-wash Brown onion pre-wash Names of dye for each fabric sample Naturally dyed fabric As evidenced by the pictures, natural dyes really do work! The easiest colours to obtain are brown, yellow, red and purple tones. I tried several of the listed natural dyes for green (grass, spinach & red onion skins) but none of them were successful; in fact, the red onion skins produced a strong brown/red colour. All of the colours are muted compared to the pre-wash colour. This may be simply the process for natural dyes. I did not use any chemical fixatives; these may have helped to hold the colours better!
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
These moody earthy tones are so hard to photograph. They do have a bit of sparkle to them. Available here. SOLD Have a goo...
You may have seen some red onion dye using just the skins, but what if you use the entire onion? I tried it out and the results were so cool.
If you’re starting to use natural dyes for your fabrics, you need to learn about mordants for natural dyes. Here's using mordants 101.
Dyeing polyester fabrics and other synthetic fibers is easy with the right dye. Learn how to dye polyester fabrics step by step.
This step by step tutorial shows you how to dye fabric, how to dye fabric naturally and how to dye fabric black
Making fabrics of different colors has become easier now. Believe me, this natural dyeing technique is so addictive and you will never know what color you are going to get each time you try. Dyeing…
Crafting and making have always been my way of staying grounded and relaxing in times of stress. So while we’re all stuck at home and feeling all the cabin fever from stay home restrictions and lock downs, I’d like to share with you a simple yet fun beginner tutorial for making your own bundle dyed
To make your clothes shine in a new colour, you can simply use textile dye! How you can dye clothes and what you have to consider, you can find out here!
In this Beginner’s Guide to Natural Dyes you will learn how to produce intense and bright colors using natural dyes. Free Printable Dye list.
If you have never attempted dyeing with peach leaves, it is not difficult. Read here for more instruction to obtain a good yellow dye from peach leaves.
Nature provides a rainbow of colors that you can use to dye fabrics naturally to avoid harmful chemicals. Learn how to use natural dyes.
4 Natural Dyes you can use without the need of a mordant.Most natural dyes really need a good mordanting, either aluminium based mordants, copper, ferrous sulfate or a tanning using a tannin rich plant material. Mordanting is important to improve the light- and was fastness of your textiles and it intensifies the colour outcome on your fabric.Some natural dyes have enough tannin to be light- and wash fast without the assistance of alum, or iron. These are called substantive dyes. I have written
This video explains that dyeing anything that is packaged can usually fit in a cup and can use one or multiple colors, but when it is finished she puts it in a cheap plastic bag.
Steeped in history and romance pomegranates have long been cultivated for their nutritious and delicious juice. The flowers are bright red and so beautiful that some fruitless varieties are grown for ornamental value. I've witnessed the fruit just dropping to the ground, providing food for animals - which is crazy to me because they're packed with useful properties beyond food, they're also a tannin rich dye.
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!
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.
A new blogpost from Nienke : My calculations of 'how much dye is needed for this piece of fabric' were a bit confusing, at least to some o...
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, with red cabbage, and then some baking soda... Anyways, this was so crazy easy, and looks pretty amazing. Seriously, I think I've spent more time watering my pathetic garden this week than dealing with this, that's how little time it takes. Here's what I did, and hopefully it works for you! 1) Applied an alum mordant ahead of time. Maybe I'll actually outline that separately, because there was a bunch of ratios involved, and I think it would be helpful to post, because a lot of the resources I found were incomplete. 2) Bought about a cup and a half of black beans, added water and let them soak overnight (this was for about 150g of cotton fabric. I was very inexact with those ratios, but it seemed to turn out ok!) 3) In the morning, I strained the bean water into a second bucket (read: old IKEA trash bin) and added my fabric. I added more water to the beans. 4) I did the same thing that evening, adding the bean water into the fabric bucket and adding clean water to the beans. 5) Repeat step 3 & 4 the next day 6) The next morning (so the fabric had been soaking for 48 hours), I removed the fabric, rinsed it well, and hung it to dry. That's it! So: soak beans, add new bean water to fabric every 12 hours for a total of 2 days soaking time. I assume if you used more beans, or left the fabric longer you might get more saturated shades. I took one piece out the after 36 hours soaking to see what would happen, and it is slightly lighter. Hope that helps someone with their dyeing!
I'm sharing how to dye fabric on the blog today. Check out how I dyed IKEA curtain panels to the perfect shade of navy. I'm also sharing the do's and don't's of fabric dying on the blog today.
Learn a fun new technique called rust dyeing fabric that uses vinegar soaked fabric and old rusted metal to create gorgeous pieces of dyed fabric.
This was my first attempt so I don't claim to be a fabric dyeing expert, but I'm sharing a few do's and don't I experienced that may help you on your first try. The good new is, apparently you don't have to be any sort of expert to get impressive results. :)
