How to Make Mordants for Natural Dyes - DIY - MOTHER EARTH NEWS
Use these recipes to make mordants for natural dyes.
Berries, Natural Dyes
At the carpet weaving center we visited on our trip to Cappadocia in Turkey this past July. All the wool dyes are made from natural sources of flowers, berries, leaves, and/or bark.
Back to the Sea
Firstly, a leaf. I picked it up for its colours, played with it and later re-discovered it in a coat pocket. It dried like that and is now...
Black Beans as a Natural Dye ~ Revisited
A couple months back I posted about using black beans as a natural dye for some wool yarn. I was slightly disappointed by the results I achieved as I was expecting to get a blue dye like others hav…
Natural Dyes - Yellow Onion Skins
Yellow onion skins create a golden range of earthy colors. With a concentrated dye bath and enough time for the fibers to soak, the colors achieved...
Purl bee Hand Dyed Felt, colours of a a single saturation/ value type
Natural dyes and their results @ the Johnny Appleseed festivals
Wooden Spool Designs
It's Flag Day Here is a fun little scrappy flag to use as a bowl filler or pincushion and its great to whip up with your scraps!! It's a free pattern just for you!! click here for pattern Our summer has been slow to come!! We have had cool and wet weather so far and I guess since I have a cold staying inside and stitching isn't such a bad way to wait for the sun to shine!! I am busy digging out the flags in anticipation for July and WARM summer fun!! Here is another fun little pattern…
North Bayshore Antiques
North Bayshore Antiques is an online antique and auction gallery located just outside the first town in the first state of Delaware. We travel the east coast seeking American colonial and country antiques and primitives from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. We specialize in early wrought iron lighting; wooden dough bowls, trenchers, and kitchen treen; cast iron open hearth cookware, copperware; document, candle, and other wooden boxes and chests, stoneware cobalt glaze crocks and…
My Marrakesh
The bemused tales of an American family's quest to build a guest house in Marrakesh.
Natural dyes and their results at the Johnny Appleseed festival