Natural dye techniques

Learn how to make natural dyes for fabric using ingredients that you already have around! Have fun experimenting to get beautiful colors and shades!

Bundle dyeing with natural materials is a wonderful way to get started with natural dyeing. It is also a great possibility to reuse dyestuff

Natural Dyeing Tutorial. Learn how to use red cabbage to obtain beautiful purples, greens and blues with organic cotton yarn.

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.

It’s summer here in the UK, and the hedgerows around Bristol are alive with plant life. Many of these common ‘weeds’, trees and flowers can be used as natural dyes, providing you with a free source of botanical colour. My favourite foraging area of the Bristol – the Bristol and Bath Railway Path i

Experimenting with making natural dyes. These wool fabrics are dyed using a dye bad made of dried hibiscus flowers. check my blog for more info: esthervaneden.blogspot.com

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