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It's All About the Mordants and Assists

Mordants and Assists available at The Yarn Tree Today I’d like to talk about mordants.The word mordant comes from the French word “mordre” – to bite. The mordant combines with a natural dye and fixes the color to the material. Mordants make the color richer, lightfast and wash-fast.

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5 Different Mordants in Eco Printing

In several previous blogs you have been able to see and read more about the different results in natural dyes when using different mordants.In this blog I want to show you the results in reference to eco printing. The natural juices and tannins present in the leaves leave different prints on fabric and paper when using different mordants. Looking deeper into this will also help understand the effect the mordants have visually on our natural dyes.First; we will look at the way leaves are…

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Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "A coreopsis eco print sampler. 🌼 A few folks have asked for example prints of the different varieties of coreopsis flowers so I made this eco print sampler with the 5 varieties they are currently blooming in my garden. 🌿✨ 1. Plains coreopsis 2. Incredible Swirl 3. Lance Leaf 4. Red & gold uptick 5. Sterntaler For this sampler, I worked with bamboo silk, mordanted with method 3 from my online ‘Printing with Flowers & Leaves’ course. ✨This is the last weekend to receive 50% off with code SPRING50✨ 👉🏼Comment LINK & I’ll send the info straight to your inbox. The ecoprinting process involves laying the mordanted fabric onto a barrier, arranging the flowers on top, rolling the ensemble onto a dowel, and steaming it to transfer the natur Printing With Flowers, Plains Coreopsis, Eco Printing Tutorial, Diy Dye Clothes, Eco Printing Textiles, Eco Dyeing Fabric, Leaf Dyeing, Natural Dyeing Techniques, Diy Tie Dye Designs
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Printing With Flowers

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "A coreopsis eco print sampler. 🌼 A few folks have asked for example prints of the different varieties of coreopsis flowers so I made this eco print sampler with the 5 varieties they are currently blooming in my garden. 🌿✨ 1. Plains coreopsis 2. Incredible Swirl 3. Lance Leaf 4. Red & gold uptick 5. Sterntaler For this sampler, I worked with bamboo silk, mordanted with method 3 from my online ‘Printing with Flowers & Leaves’ course…

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No Mordant Needed Eco Dyeing Fabric, Tinta Natural, Natural Dyeing Techniques, Fabric Dyeing Techniques, Diy Dye, Dyeing Fabric, Natural Dye Fabric, Eco Dyeing, Natural Dyeing
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No Mordant Needed

4 Natural Dyes you can use without the need of a mordant.Most natural dyes really need a good mordanting, either aluminium based mordants, copper, ferrous sulfate or a tanning using a tannin rich plant material. Mordanting is important to improve the light- and was fastness of your textiles and it intensifies the colour outcome on your fabric.Some natural dyes have enough tannin to be light- and wash fast without the assistance of alum, or iron. These are called substantive dyes. I have…

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