While woad is a beautiful and complex natural dye color, the plant itself has several prejudices against it. It is…
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Not So Fugitive Natural Dyes: Top Seven Colorfast Natural Dyes
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************There are few things more frustrating than laboring to harvest, extract, and use a natural dye and then finding out…
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Capturing the Fall Palette in Natural Dyes
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************Fall is officially here, in more ways than one. Sparking golden in the falling leaves, swirls of gold and red…
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Top Three Late Spring to Summer Natural Dyes
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************Spring is creeping to summer now, and plants are growing their flowers. Among the rich green fields pockets of colour,…
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How to Identify Indigo in Woad
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************I was asked if there was a method by which one could identify the indigo in woad, as part of…
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Book Review: A Garden to Dye For by Chris McLaughlin
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************A Garden to Dye For by Chris McLaughlin is a natural dye book designed for gardeners, and natural dyers who…
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