What are Natural Dye Extracts and Why Use Them for Dyeing? Natural dye extracts are a popular alternative to raw plant materials. Fibrecrafts Natural Dye Extracts provide efficiency, consistency, and professional results in textile dyeing projects: Concentrated Purity: The refined powders are produced from natural dyestuffs, including roots, barks, leaves, flowers and cochineal insects. The […]
Tag Archives: Natural Dyes
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How to Get the Best from Natural Dyes Natural dyeing is as much about discovery as it is about understanding the process. Small variations in water, fibre, temperature and dye concentration can produce beautifully unique results, which is part of its enduring appeal. It isn’t about following rigid rules; it’s about understanding a few simple […]
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Whether you’re dyeing yarn, fabric, fibre, paper or clothing, one question comes up more than any other:Â “Why Is My Dye the Wrong Colour?”. Dozens of variables can influence the final colour. Some factors create subtle differences, while others can completely change the shade you achieve. Understanding these variables makes it much easier to produce colours […]
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You may have seen the abbreviation WOF used in textile dyeing and wondered what it means. Because textiles vary drastically in thickness, fibre type, and mass, dyers use a universal system called Weight of Fibre – WOF. WOF (Weight of Fibre) is the standard formula used to calculate dye quantities in textile dyeing. Here’s how […]
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Print with leaves found in the garden or out on a walk; explore, experiment and take notes! Creating these Botanical Prints is so satisfying as each experiment will give you a different result. You can find further information about this technique from our Blog post Botanical Printing – an overview or search the internet to […]
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Botanical Printing, Eco Printing, Botanical Dyeing, Eco Dyeing, Botanical Inks – just some of the terms being used to describe this increasingly popular and exciting approach to transferring plant colours and patterns onto fabric and paper. The varying methods use leaf and flower cuttings to extract colour and ghost-like images of the foliage. What is […]
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We’re thrilled to have been mentioned in an article by Rachael Dove in The Evening Standard recently. “How to dye your old clothes with Alice Temperley” shares how to bring new life to discarded garments – using Fibrecrafts Natural Dyes! Award winning British designer Alice Temperley MBE, explains how she uses Madder, Cochineal and Logwood […]
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Customer Yvonne Appleby has very kindly sent us some photographs of her Eco Prints on watercolour paper. Ash Leaves “My first attempt at eco printing was, to my great satisfaction and no small surprise, a success. The leaves used were Sweet Chestnut, Ash, Wych Elm, Ivy, Cotoneaster, Yarrow, Bracken and Tansy.” Yvonne used the following […]
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It’s never too late to change direction in life and customer Jo Aylwin is living proof! Before training as a solicitor, Jo had discovered weaving as a student in Norway in 1975. Although in love with the craft, she did not encounter weaving again for another 30 years. The workshop she attended at UCA Farnham […]
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Dye-Lishus Cotton Sliver is an undyed, PFD (prepared for dyeing) cotton fibre that has been treated to accept dye colour directly using any dye stuff. The cellulose structure is changed so that it behaves as if scoured and mordanted in preparation for dyeing before it goes to the mill; there is no chemical added to […]