Symplocos Plant Mordant - Botanical Colors
The Plant Mordant Project offers natural dyers a unique opportunity to make reliable colors 100% from plants with symplocos.| Botanical Colors
The Plant Mordant Project offers natural dyers a unique opportunity to make reliable colors 100% from plants with symplocos.| Botanical Colors
We now offer a new cold mordant made from mineral salts called aluminum triformate. Aluminum triformate is a room temperature dye for all natural fibers.| Botanical Colors
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We have curated a selection of the best fabrics and materials for you to dye.| Botanical Colors
We get mordant questions all the time at Botanical Colors so why not create Mordant Monday??? Got mordanting questions? Email questions@botanicalcolors.com YOU ASKED: I am working with earth pigments specifically clay. I am trying to wrap my head around the use of soy as a binder/mordant. Is a coating of soy necessary as an initial application? Then using pigment. Mixed with soy as design than a coating of soy over the whole dried material? Or what?? KATHY ANSWERED: Soy is used as a binder, a...| Botanical Colors
We get mordant questions all the time at Botanical Colors so why not create Mordant Monday??? Email questions@botanicalcolors.com| Botanical Colors
Botanical Colors provides natural dyes to natural dyers and fashion brands that are sustainable, environmentally friendly and support farming communities.| Botanical Colors
The Art and Science of Natural Dyes: Principles, Experiments, and Resultsis a comprehensive guide that explains the general principles of natural dyeing.| Botanical Colors
We originally used a recipe based on Michel Garcia's 1-2-3 vat but have made some changes to control how light or dark your vat is.| Botanical Colors
These three, easy shibori techniques work best with indigo, but can be used with other natural dyes as well.| Botanical Colors
Looking to learn how to work with natural dyes? Our Botanical Colors How To's list covers everything you need to know.| Botanical Colors
Kakishibu Liquid is a full strength solution of the tannin-rich persimmon Diospyros kaki. It is an important color in the Japanese palette and is used as| Botanical Colors
Our How To guides are intended to make the dye process easy for our customers, from mordanting and to how to scour your fibers.| Botanical Colors
Kakishibu samples clockwise from top: paste resist by Kentaro Kojima, silk, cotton sashiko thread, cotton with iron, soda ash and kakishibu alone. Natural dyes are fascinating because we can see the history of human curiosity and imagination as it interacts with the natural world. Like, who looked at a hard, green, horribly astringent, inedible persimmon fruit and thought “You know, there’s probably an amazing, insect-repelling, anti-microbial, water-resistant, beautiful color in there if...| Botanical Colors
We get mordant questions all the time at Botanical Colors so why not create Mordant Monday??? Got mordanting questions? Email questions@botanicalcolors.com YOU ASKED: I’m wondering if its possible to reuse a tannin bath, perhaps by using half as much tannin powder the second time as one can do when re using a mordant bath? Recently I have made a tannin bath for linen and have lots left over, it would be great not to throw it out! Secondly, I usually rinse the fabric after mordanting and bef...| Botanical Colors
Thank you to Rachel MacHenry and Gitte Hansen of Contemporary Textile Studio Co-operative for the lovely photos! I taught a one day workshop on middle mordant using Japanese dyes in Toronto on Friday, and had a great time with the students. This was the first time we’d tried the technique using only Japanese dyes that we extracted, and we also had a side trip into kakishibu which didn’t require any mordant, but made a beautiful shade. I’ve written about middle mordanting before: Cathari...| Botanical Colors
In this edition of Botanical Colors’ Sunday Visit series, we sit down with Victoria Manganiello, the innovative textile artist and co-founder of Craftwork, whose work blurs the boundaries between ancient weaving traditions and cutting-edge technology. From her early days experimenting with knitting and macramé to her current projects that fuse natural dyes, fiber optics, and computer programming, Manganiello’s practice is a testament to the power of collaboration, curiosity, and storytel...| Botanical Colors
A 1-2-3 indigo iron vat will give you a cool blue-gray color. It is a good choice for dark blue shades when making an indigo vat.| Botanical Colors
The fructose indigo vat is one of the easiest indigo vats to set up and gives good color. I've found that it benefits from a few days aging| Botanical Colors
We've just received a shipment of vintage handwoven hemp-cotton towels that have minor stains, shadings and marks. The fabric is unused.| Botanical Colors
For this Mordant Monday, we are bringing back our Pride Rainbow! We love rainbows, color gradations, anything to show off the beauty and nuance of natural dyes. And now with our pre-mordanted bandanas, you can make a rainbow of your own! Materials Experience level Familiarity with using natural dye extracts, or using raw materials in an immersion dye bath, and with overdyeing colors. Familiarity with indigo and indigo over dyeing. A 6 pack of pre-mordanted bandanas Yellow Orange Red Green B...| Botanical Colors
Pictured here is our drying line from our recent tour to The Threads of Life Bali. The black pieces are Ceriops overdyed in Indigo. Today, we’re taking a look at Ceriops Tagal, a “red” tannin from Indonesia, and a color that is rich in history and traditional use. We are excited to present it to you again as it was one of our favorite dyes to work with while we were at The Threads of Life Bali. At Botanical Colors, we recognize that the mangrove species is threatened due to widespread c...| Botanical Colors
The plant world contains species that draw alum from the soil and store them in their tissue – they’re referred to as alum accumulators or hyper accumulators. There’s a plant species called symplocos that is an alum accumulator and contains enough alum to be used as a plant-based mordant. We carry symplocos and are happy to have a new shipment arriving this week, so it’s a good time to review this mordant alternative with a great backstory. The Story of Symplocos In 2005 and 2006, The...| Botanical Colors
Usually for our Mordant Monday, we dive into a mordant topic, alas we’re in Bali and we have no idea what day it is! For this week’s blog post, we are changing it up as we’re feeling so nourished and inspired by our time in Bali, we needed to share it with you all. We’re drawing on the end of our trip and are gobsmacked by the kindness, patience and extensive knowledge the Threads of Life and their team are so graciously bestowing upon us. Here we share with you the process of learnin...| Botanical Colors
We get mordant questions all the time at Botanical Colors so why not create Mordant Monday??? Got mordanting questions? Email questions@botanicalcolors.com YOU ASKED: Do you always dye indigo first before overdyeing with another color? Does it make any difference? KATHY ANSWERED: When I was starting out, I was advised to dye with indigo first, rinse, mordant my fabric, and then dye with a mordant color second in order to create any type of compound color when indigo is involved. We largely ag...| Botanical Colors
The 1-2-3 fructose indigo vat is one of our most popular vats for its ease of use and good, strong colors. Our kit comes pre-measured to make a vat.| Botanical Colors
A beautiful indigo paste from Oregon's Vibrant Valley Blue. This historical color comes from Japanese indigo, or Persicaria tinctoria.| Botanical Colors
