Garden Spaces: Make Natural Dyes

By The Herb Companion staff
June/July 2010
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Make natural dyes from plants with the help of these online resources:

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• Homespun Wool and Natural Dyes: Learn more about mordanting, which is a chemical proces that enables colors to stick to wool rather than wash out and fade. Most of the time, you need to use mordant with your dyes. 
• Mordanting for Natural Dyeing: There are general rules for mordanting. Discover what they are and learn more about six different types of mordants.
• Make Natural Dyes: Sunset magazine offers do-it-yourself instructions to make your own natural dyes using onion skins and flowers, mordant-free.
• How to Make Natural Dyes: Check out wikiHow for step-by-step instructions on how to make natural dyes, also mordant-free.
• Instructions and Classes: Visit even more links about natural dye instructions and classes courtesy Natural Dyes International, a non-profit organization for research and education on natural dyes and pigments.

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To find out more about the process of mordanting and other steps for natural dying, try these two excellent volumes by Rita Buchanan.
• A Dyer’s Garden (Interweave Press, 1995)
• A Weaver’s Garden (Dover Publications, 1999)

Kathleen Halloran is a contributing editor living and gardening in beautiful Austin, Texas. 

Click here for the main article, Garden Spaces: Plant a Dye Garden.

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