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Tag: Plant dyeing 101
Foraging for dye plants
Summer's abundance of plants and flowers is calling! You can sniff them on a walk, gaze at them while lying in the meadow or gather and dye with them, and if you're new to picking wild plants, I'd like to give you a few points of orientation. And introduce three dye plants you might find easily.
Tools & equipment to get started with natural dyeing
We have already discussed this quite a few times in the workshops: What equipment do you really need as a beginner in natural dyeing?
Plant dyeing 101: Choosing fibres to dye with plants
For dyeing with plants it's very helpful to not only know about dye plants, but also about the textiles you want to dye. Textiles, wovens or knitwear, surround us everyday. At the same time, we often don't know much about how they were made and their characteristics. While textiles are omnipresent, they're not a subject that's deemed important very often. Had I not happened to study fashion design, would I ever have learnt about the different fibres that clothe, warm, protect me? So if you feel like textiles are a bit of a mystery, then here is a brief overview for you!
Plant dyeing 101: What is mordanting?
"What exactly is mordanting?" Have you ever asked yourself this, perhaps while leafing through a natural dye book? If you only have a vague idea about mordanting, then you probably already know that it's "kind of important". Read more if mordants are a mystery or have even put you off dyeing with plants.