Recycling of an old madder dye pot
Recyclage du vieux bain de garance Il suffit de filtrer les vieux bains, de chauffer le liquide à 80° environ. Puis on ajoute de...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 162 min read
Michel Garcia about Persicaria plants
Soignons nos persicaires. Certains de mes plants de persicaire sont bien verts et les autres sont bien jaunes ! Les plantes jaunies sont...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 142 min read
Printing on Wool Fabric with Mordant Dye Pastes
Recipe for Printing on Fabric with Mordant Dyes Ingredients and Materials: Weld extract: 20 grams Logwood extract: 30 grams Cochineal...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 142 min read
Recipe for Block Printing with Cutch and Iron Acetate Pastes on Wool Fabric
Materials Needed: Low-density polypropylene block Adhesive velvet for coating the block Cutch extract Iron acetate paste Wool fabric or...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 141 min read
Some recipes for printing pastes
1. Printing Pastes with Cutch and Iron Acetate Recipe for Michel Garcia's Iron Acetate Paste for Printing on Wool: Ingredients:...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 142 min read
Making Lake From a Leftover Dye Bath
Making Lake from a Leftover Dye Bath Ingredients: 28 grams of aluminum sulfate Sodium carbonate Dye bath leftovers (e.g., from St. John’s...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 142 min read
Recipe for Preparing a Big Fructose Indigo Vat
Recipe for Preparing a Big Fructose Indigo Vat Ingredients: 300 grams of high-quality indigo powder 1 kilogram of sugar (fructose) 600...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 122 min read
TWO-STEP MORDANTING: TANNIN and AL acetate
Two-step mordanting: tannin and aluminum salt. Cellulose fibers possess inherent properties that enable them to form bonds with tannins,...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 122 min read
ANIMALIZATION of CELLULOSIC FABRIC: CHITOSAN
CELLULOSIC FABRIC: CHITOSAN We are pleased to announce that Michel Garcia's new course, "The Complete Guide to Dyeing Cellulosic Fibers,"...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 122 min read
Tutorial VII Dyeing Cellulosic Fibers
We are glad to release our brand-new video tutorial by Michel Garcia: "Complete Guide to Dyeing Cellulosic Fibers"! We are offering an...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 121 min read
Making Lakes for Recycling of Dye Bath Leftovers
Making Lakes for Recycling of Dye Bath Leftovers Every dyer, whether a craftsman or a hobbyist engaging in natural dyeing occasionally,...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 81 min read
Madder Red (post by Michel Garcia)
Madder red 100% vegetable-based The Atrebates, ancient inhabitants of Northern Gaul, had developed a real textile industry, notably...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 81 min read
More about tannin...(post by Michel Garcia)
The tannin black pigment What to do with an old gall nut bath that has been used to mordant a cotton fabric before dyeing? Nothing is...
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Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 81 min read
Beautiful yellow pigment from Sophora
Sophora Yellow, a beautiful pigment production!
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Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 81 min read
Magic Safflower (post by Michel Garcia)
Safflower rose, and pigment from washing waters Let's separate the seeds from the ligules, for it's time to sow safflower seeds A good...
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