Natural dye

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.

Learn what natural mordants for dyeing are, including step-by-step instructions, and tips for achieving desired results in natural dyeing.

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…

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 DIY Natural Dye Project FAILED.

I prepared a simple flow chart to help you avoid the mistakes I made when I first started my botanical dyeing journey. I hope it will give you some initial structure and help you understand the dependencies between different fibers, techniques and dyestuffs. Start by answering the questions and following the directions, or go to the diagram version at the bottom of this post.

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Six years ago I did two post on how to dye wool yarn with black beans. As I have moved into dyeing cotton fabric I thought I would write a little updated post. You can read here the part 1 and part 2. I basically I used exactly the same technique, the biggest difference was…

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!