This is a big post. There’s a lot to say about indigo (way more than I know or have experience with), but even for my first foray into the indigo world, I learned a lot. Indigo was something I wanted to try down the road, and had no plans to get into right away. While I dip my toe in…

After my ill-fated attempt at Logwood exhaust and Osage I wanted to go back to something simple. Since I had not gotten the colour I expected at all from the last dyebath, I wanted to go back and use just the Osage to get a good baseline of what I could expect. This would be my fourth experiment with natural…

I did not feel great about these skeins. In fact, I would be so bold as to say I actively disliked the colour you see in the photo. But learning about not just dyeing, but natural dyeing, is all about successes and failures, and this one I would definitely put in the “failure” camp, at least initially. The nice thing…

When trying to decide what my first natural dye would be, I wanted something relatively simple. Or, to put it another way, something relatively straight forward that would allow me to get what I’m going for without too many variables. I’m a big fan of when learning a new skill, start really simple and work your way up to adding…