How to Mordant Cotton and Linen Linen and cotton yarns require a different mordant preparation prior to using natural dyes. Difficulty Level: Average Time Required: 90 minutes Here’s How: Use clean, scoured […]
How to Make a Tin Mordant
How to Make a Tin Mordant A Tin (stannous chloride) mordant can be used to obtain different colour variations than Alum (another commonly used mordant for natural dyeing. Difficulty Level: Average Time […]
Red Cedar Dye
Red Cedar Bark Natural Dye The Western Red Cedar – Thuja plicata, is British Columbia’s provincial tree. It grows to heights of over 50 metres tall. The bark is grey to reddish […]
Logwood Dye
Natural Dyes: Logwood Logwood Natural DyeHaematoxylum campechianumLogwood comes from a tree native to the West Indies and the Yucatan Peninsula. The heartwood yields a dye that gives pinks, blues, purples and greens […]
Osage Orange
Osage Orange Osage Orange Natural DyeMaclura pomiferaOsage Orange comes from a tree native to Arkansas and Texas. Its wood makes a clear lemon yellow dye. Post Views: 569
Himalayan Rhubarb
Himalayan Rhubarb Himalayan Rhubarb Dye Recipe for Linen, Cotton and Cellulose FibresRheum Emodi for 100 grams of fibre20 grams Himalayan Rhubarb Dye Powder Post Views: 556
Alkanet Root Dye
Alkanet Root Dye Alkanet Root Dye Recipe for Linen, Cotton and Cellulose FibresAlkana Tinctoria for 100 grams of fibre20 grams Alkanet Root dye powderSoak the Alkanet in a glass jar overnight with […]
My Life with Cancer
My Life with Cancer August 2018 My Dear Fibre Friends,It is difficult to write this but I feel that I must share my experiences as part of my healing process. In early […]
Breast Cancer: A Piece of Celery
Breast Cancer and a Piece of Celery What Does Celery have to do with Cancer? Being of Finnish/Saami origin, I am a great coffee lover. When I first got home from the […]
Flax to Linen Yarn
From Flax to Linen Yarn Flax Growing, Rippling, Retting,Hackling, Scutching and Spinning There are two general types of flax, one is grown for seeds, the other for its fibre Linseed has been […]