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2 min

Quick Fresh Indigo

I was gifted 5 beautiful Persicaria Tinctoria plants by my new friend Hagar in the North of my country. She has been growing a field of i...

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7 min

All about Alum Based Mordants

Dye experiments using different alum based mordants

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3 min

Tannins and Ferrous Sulfate in Eco Printing.

Different tannins give different results when eco printing with a ferrous sulfate rich target piece.

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2 min

How-to; Improve any eco print in 5 minutes

Improve an eco print flop in 5 minutes

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7 min

How-to; Make Ink

How to make beautiful inks for writing and painting from natural materials.

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5 min

Nine reasons your natural dye project went wrong.

9 ways to get your natural dye project right

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3 min

For the love of bark

Natural dyes made from different types of wood bark; poplar, chestnut and birch

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1 min

Shade Card Natural Dyes

An overview of natural dye shades

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5 min

Setting Up A Hydros Indigo Vat

Setting up an Indigo vat using Hydros as the reducer

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1 min

10 minute DIY project with scraps

10 minute DIY tea light holder from scraps

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1 min

World Wide Slow Dye Jars

Work Wide Slow Dye Jars

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4 min

Red Eucalyptus Eco Prints

Red prints with Eucalyptus

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3 min

Compound colours; Indigo and Weld greens

Some colours (especially light fast) are hard to create with natural dyes, certain shades of purple, orange and greens. For these shades w...

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4 min

Fermentation and Solar Dyeing, the ultimate slow dye.

Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process

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6 min

Mordants and tannins. Assists and modifiers.

Mordants, tannins, assists and modifiers in natural dyeing and eco printing, what are they, and what are they not.

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3 min

Rhamnus frangula (Alder Buckthorn) on cotton

Rhamnus frangula on cellulose textiles

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3 min

Dyeing fabrics with Alder Buckthorn

Dyeing with alder buckthorn bark (Rhamnus)

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3 min

Green without indigo, using logwood and weld

Dyeing green with logwood and weld

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4 min

Printing with natural dyes

History and practical use of natural dye pastes for modern textile printing.

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4 min

A Madder History, Rubia Tinctorum Growing in the Netherlands.

Madder Crop History in the Netherlands

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