If you want consistent, repeatable colors when modifying your natural dyeing with iron, iron water is not the thing to use. Move along and search online for a recipe to make an iron acetate mordant for anything that requires measurable results. However, if you want to introduce a little bit of chaos, surprise, and pureContinue reading “Iron Water”
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How To: gather basic equipment
Going to be honest with you, this is just a list of things I’ve found useful and is in no way complete. I’ve been doing this for a little while now and a lot of the stuff I’ve picked up as donations or second hand. I got very lucky and picked up chemistry flasks inContinue reading “How To: gather basic equipment”
How To: Scour Animal/protein fibres.
Scouring is the term used in the dyeing world for cleaning – but not in the standard ‘bung it in the washing machine’ type of cleaning. When you consider how pernickity natural and historic dyes can be it makes sense that you want to remove as many reasons for your dyeing to go wrong asContinue reading “How To: Scour Animal/protein fibres.”