Botanical dyeing

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "👉🏼Comment FLOWER & I’ll send you a list of my Favorite flowers for botanical printing 🌼✨ The truth is, there really are no fast tricks when it comes to natural dyeing. It’s a nuanced process that involves a lot of thought and patience. It takes practice to figure out how to get fantastic prints. 👉🏼 That’s why I’m sharing some of my favorite tips with you today! 🩵 Eco printing is a natural dye method that uses pressure and heat to…

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…

Discover an eco-friendly alternative to dyeing fabric using botanicals and learn how to make herb-dyed cotton sachets.

How to turn plants like lavender, nettles, goldenrod, and elderberries into natural dyes for fabrics like cotton, linen plus wool and silk. Use this starter guide to begin creating botanical dyes from your garden.

Using blankets in eco printing

A simple natural dyeing method that can be done from home, bundle dyeing creates botanical prints from flowers, petals, leaves, herbs and vegetables.

How to Dye Fabric Using Plants. A list of 83 plants {and directions!} on how to dye fabric using plants from your garden.

NATURAL DYEING | REBECCA DESNOS on Instagram: "You don’t need to buy dye extracts to make beautiful colours 🌈 We have natural dyes all around us just waiting to be unlocked. When I started natural dyeing years ago, I bought all my dyes. Then I realised that the alder tree across the road from my home was dripping with dye potential. If you combine alder cone dye with iron, you can make gorgeous grey and forest green shades (depending on the mordant and fibre). Alder cone dye was the…

When you’re starting out with natural dyeing, I understand there’s a little uncertainty and almost fear about making a mistake, doing it wrong, and not knowing where to actually start. And that even comes down to not knowing what fabric to use. So, here’s a few different fabric types and why some ar

Liz Spencer • Natural Dyes & Growing Color on Instagram: "Plant hammered 🌿🔨Garden Botanical Sampler - A documentation of my garden on cloth 💚 this technique is the perfect way to record the plants around you whether you have a garden, or a snip of a flower or leaf from your favorite local plants. 📌Learn how to pre-treat fabric naturally to achieve plant prints that will withstand wash & wear in my new Tutorial in ✨A Year in Natural Dyes✨ The tutorial has lists of my favorite fabric…