Botanical dye fabric

Learn how to naturally change the shade of your fabric with a tea-dye. It's easy, and anticipation over the results are part of the fun!

It started with avocados. "Remember when people were dying fabric with the pits and skins, like, three or four years ago? I tried it and became so obsessed

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "👉🏼Comment FLOWER & I’ll send you a list of my Favorite flowers for botanical printing 🌼✨ The truth is, there really are no fast tricks when it comes to natural dyeing. It’s a nuanced process that involves a lot of thought and patience. It takes practice to figure out how to get fantastic prints. 👉🏼 That’s why I’m sharing some of my favorite tips with you today! 🩵 Eco printing is a natural dye method that uses pressure and heat to…

How to Dye Fabric Using Plants. A list of 83 plants {and directions!} on how to dye fabric using plants from your garden.

We are in the middle of a pretty intense heat wave over here in the Midwest, and boy is ever it hot hot hot. The humidity level reached the point of unbearable since this past week and that means our outdoor adventuring has sort of come to a halt until things cool off a bit. That being…

This summer I’ve made dyes from a few flowers from my garden. In this blog post, I’ll share my dye notes and colour swatches for three colours of buddleja (butterfly bush), yarrow and goldenrod flowers. I used cellulose fabric for all of the swatches — organic cotton, bamboo viscose and linen. Aluminium dye pots were...

Liz Spencer • Natural Dyes & Growing Color on Instagram: "Plant hammered 🌿🔨Garden Botanical Sampler - A documentation of my garden on cloth 💚 this technique is the perfect way to record the plants around you whether you have a garden, or a snip of a flower or leaf from your favorite local plants. 📌Learn how to pre-treat fabric naturally to achieve plant prints that will withstand wash & wear in my new Tutorial in ✨A Year in Natural Dyes✨ The tutorial has lists of my favorite fabric…

Australian Natives Print Party on Instagram: "I’m creating 20 pillowcases in 20 days. Each one shows a different technique of botanical printing or botanical dyeing. The techniques are suitable for upcycling any clothes or homewares made of natural fabrics. Semi synthetics will also work (but not fully synthetic fabrics). The full recipes are included in our ‘Upcycle Fun Pack’. The pillowcases were rescued from our storage shed after our house was flattened by a tornado on Christmas…

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "Comment PRINT & I’ll send you a ✨free✨ botanical printing tutorial as well as a special discount code for my online, self-paced botanical printing course. 🌿 Q: How does this work? A: Plants are laid on top of damp, pretreated fabric. The fabric and plants are tightly rolled onto a pipe or dowel then bundled with string or fabric. The bundle is placed over water and steamed to transfer the natural dyes from the plants to the fabric. ✨ Q…

Have you ever thought about extracting color from plants? If so, you might have even considered cultivating your own dye garden. While a vegetable or herb garden's purpose is to produce food, a dye...