Dyeing process

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

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Anyone who can make a pot of tea can dye a skein of wool or yard of plain linen to whatever color they want, using commonly found plants.

Ok, here goes nothing! It’s time to start the dyeing process. I have done my best to document my full process, so apologies in advance for the length and detail of the post, but if you ever decide to try natural dyeing I hope you find it useful! If you are new to Acre, I would start with Learning H

THE KINDCRAFT explains the step-by-step process of making natural indigo dye from plant to paste in Thailand.

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Before the weaving of the Ilkal saree the cotton yarns are dyed into desired colours in the process of Cold water dyeing and Hot water Dyeing. Cold Water Dyeing: It is the process where the natural silk yarns or cotton yarns are separated from the bundle and firstly dipped into a soap solution then required dye is mixed into the soap solution and the yarns are further dipped into the dye solution to absorb the colour and are kept for some time. Then the yarns are taken out and with a rod the…

What does Hank Dyeing mean? A very unique dyeing process in which colour penetration is maximized and the yarns retain a softer,...

You can see that I again stacked the mandalas as I really like the subtle differences and as I used less dye and some lighter values, they came out pretty good! I am sure now that the one on the left is the one on top and the one on the right is on the bottom. It was easy to sort them out last night as they were all so different. Note that these haven't been ironed yet! The post today will be a relatively detailed description of how I do these. This is one of the tshirts lying across a…

India is known to be one of the earliest major center for cultivation and application of the indigo plant. Indigo is extracted from the leaves of the indigo tinctoria plant through a long fermentation process and turned into pigment powder. Batik printing is a printing process that utilizes wax to resist color dye on specific areas of the fabric to reveal beautiful, intricate pattern. After the wax resist is applied, the fabric is then dyed with natural plant based pigment. For Spring…