Black bean dye

Someone on the natural dyeing thread of my Ravelry group asked me if it’s possible to dye with black rice. There wasn’t a lot to refer to when I googled the question, but I ran across a…

Six years ago I did two post on how to dye wool yarn with black beans. As I have moved into dyeing cotton fabric I thought I would write a little updated post. You can read here the part 1 and part 2. I basically I used exactly the same technique, the biggest difference was…

A couple of years ago I’ve already published a tutorial on how to dye cotton fabric blue with black beans using DIY iron mordant and a cold dyeing process. This is now a different method to dye cotton gray blue with black beans. You don’t need to mordant the fabric before dyeing it with black … Continue reading How To Dye Cotton With Black Beans (No Mordant) →

Have you ever wanted to try natural dyeing? It's as easy as raiding your pantry! Check out this step-by-step tutorial for how to dye yarn using black beans to get a gorgeous smokey blue color!

When shopping for muslin fabric for sewing test garments, I ended up buying something called “Dyer’s cloth” which was basically an unbleached cotton fabric (I think it’s the…

Natural Dyeing with Black Beans - Part of my Natural Dyeing Series. Step by step tutorial shows you how to dye yarn or wool with black beans.

Having seen some pretty amazing pictures on Ravelry, where a whole thread is devoted to the colour variations obtained with black beans, I have wanted to experiment with those for a few months now.…

Natural Dyeing with Black Beans - Part of my Natural Dyeing Series. Step by step tutorial shows you how to dye yarn or wool with black beans.

I finally finished an actual dye! I'm super happy with how it turned out, and plan on doing some cabbage dyeing after work today, w...

Black beans are such easy and affordable way to dye animal and plant based fibres naturally! Achieve gorgeous purple to lavender shade in 3 simple steps!