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Onion skins are perfect for creating beautiful earthy tones and are a great starting point for natural dye beginners. Here's an easy tutorial to create your own onion skin dye bath.
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
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.
A small list of the best books and websites for learning how to dye fabric naturally with plant-based materials.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could replace synthetic dyes with natural dyes?
Natural Dyeing Tutorial. Learn how to use red cabbage to obtain beautiful purples, greens and blues with organic cotton yarn.
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!
Learn how to extract dye from acorns, and use it to achieve a beautiful range of natural color, including tans, browns, and blacks!
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.
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.
How to dye with goldenrod
Que tal aproveitar a quarentena para aprender uma atividade que você possa fazer com as próprias mãos? O tema da matéria de hoje é tingimento natural em tecidos, uma técnica poética que explora a riqueza cromática das plantas. Veja a entrevista completa com a Maibe Maroccolo.
How to make natural dyes from food. Turn your food scraps into all natural dye to color Fabrics, Paper, Frosting. Easy natural dye recipe
We are in the middle of a pretty intense heat wave over here in the Midwest, and boy is ever it hot hot hot. The humidity level reached the point of unbearable since this past week and that means our outdoor adventuring has sort of come to a halt until things cool off a bit. That being…
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!
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.
Mordants used in natural dyeing. Defining mordant such as Allum, Copper, Tin, Iron and Chrome. Protein and cellulose fibers
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
Our friend Tatiana of Zuahaza is on the blog sharing a DIY natural avocado dye tutorial you can use for naturally dyed yarn and t-shirts!
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...
These beautiful botanically dyed scarves and textiles by Soil to Studio are inspired by traditional Indian crafts. via wallflower
We're cooking up a storm with Le Creuset's newest colors! Come learn how to make dyes in every shade of the rainbow using natural ingredients!
Explore a comprehensive list of plants that yield vibrant natural dyes, from avocado pits to turmeric. Perfect for natural dyers seeking to experiment with colors from the garden, kitchen, and beyond.
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
9 ways to get your natural dye project right
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.
Learn how to use your food waste of avocado skins and pits to make a natural dye of beautiful pink shades!
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.
This summer I’ve made dyes from a few flowers from my garden. In this blog post, I’ll share my dye notes and colour swatches for three colours of buddleja (butterfly bush), yarrow and goldenrod flowers. I used cellulose fabric for all of the swatches — organic cotton, bamboo viscose and linen. Aluminium dye pots were...
Are you interested in exploring natural plant dyes and the eco-print technique? Or perhaps you are already a seasoned eco-printer but would like to learn more about dyeing on paper? This ebook provides an in-depth guide to each step of the process. There are illustrated pages about different categories of leaves, with specific plant names to help you choose good leaves to eco-print with right away. You will learn about different paper types and the options of preparing them with metal and soy mordants, or adding iron and dye blankets on top. It also covers different options for bundling and cooking, some pointers for improving pale prints, and suggestions for how to use your beautiful eco-printed paper. At the end is a recipe section with step by step instructions for 4 special projects, including discharge printing. This ebook is a beautifully illustrated, 84 page PDF document that is available for download immediately after purchasing.
Every year we try to plant a garden, of some sort or other. Some years we’ve had flourishing garden, picking veges and flowers, other years barely anything at all. Some years it’s determined by the floods or the lack of water. I’ve done a lot of hand watering, carrying buckets from the creek to the
This blog post contains a step-by-step approach of how to dye yarn with dandelions. Although they are often considered weeds, dandelions have
When I was a little girl, I was really obsessed with wilderness survival. Not exactly a tomboy, but I would climb trees, build forts, and get really dirty collecting rocks/plants/acorns in sunflower dresses and my mothers lipstick. Actually, thanks to the 90s trend revival that is almost exactly how I am today. So really, little has changed.
Natural dye technique - How to dye fabric using only dried flowers petals and natural ingredients
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.
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
Nature provides a rainbow of colors that you can use to dye fabrics naturally to avoid harmful chemicals. Learn how to use natural dyes.
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!
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.
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...
Madder (Rubia tinctorum) – buy seeds here! Native to the Mediterranean and a member of the coffee family, madder is a hardy perennial grown for its red dye. The roots of this plant have been used for centuries to make a bright, lightfast dye on both protein and cellulose fibers. Second and third year rootsContinue reading "Growing Madder"
Simple instructions to figure out the mysteries of Eco Printing on silk. Full explanation with detailed pictures. Make your own Silk Scarves!
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
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.
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!
If you are into natural patterns, cool and distressed look, eco dyeing is for you... Elevate your daily outfits with the softness of silk!Each one of these products was eco dyed using bundle dye technique: an artisanal way of dyeing where you add leaves, flowers, rusty nails, pigments to fabric, piece of clothing or bag, making a ¨package¨and leaving with steam for a couple of hours.After a couple of hours you have these wonderful and one of a kind patterns transferred.Some of them were firstly dyed with natural dyes and then eco printed.1: earthy beige with orange, yellow stains, habotai silk 35 inches2: Lemon yellow with rust stains, habotai silk 35 inches3: Terracotta rust with dark gray stains, habotai silk 35 inches4: olive with rust and yellow and green stains, habotai silk 35 inches5: mauve gray with dark gray, yellow and greenish stains , charmeuse silk 35 inches6:terracotta with rust and yellowish stains , habotai silk 35 inches7: olive with rust and bluish stains, habotai silk 35 inches 8: yelloish olive with blueish and yellow stains, habotai silk 35 inches9: maize with orange and yellow stains, habotai silk 35 inches10:dust beige with greenish and brown stains, habotai silk 21 inchesSent plastic free and in an eco mailer .Say Hi on Insta:https://www.instagram.com/eloise_et_moi/
