Natural dye

A small list of the best books and websites for learning how to dye fabric naturally with plant-based materials.

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

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.

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…

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!

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 DI

Natural dyes that don't need mordant. Discover the reason why you can avoid the use of a mordant while using these 5 natural dyes.

It started with avocados. "Remember when people were dying fabric with the pits and skins, like, three or four years ago? I tried it and became so obsessed

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…