Fabric dyeing

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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.

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

You can see that I again stacked the mandalas as I really like the subtle differences and as I used less dye and some lighter values, they came out pretty good! I am sure now that the one on the left is the one on top and the one on the right is on the bottom. It was easy to sort them out last night as they were all so different. Note that these haven't been ironed yet! The post today will be a relatively detailed description of how I do these. This is one of the tshirts lying across a…

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Want to learn how to make natural dyes at home (with items you likely already have?) This guide has everything you need to get started!

Tie-dye might immediately bring you back to making T-shirts at camp or the screaming color combos of the '70s. But the multi-colored patterns are back, and this time they're modern,...