Using food scraps and natural materials to dye fabrics in beautiful pastel shades is a growing craft movement. We asked an expert how to get started with natural dyeing at home. Welcome to The ...

This marigold dye works best to color natural fabrics like cotton, wool, and silk. Synthetic fibers just don't absorb natural dyes as well, sorry polyester. While this dye process is simple ...

Today, Musa Jaiteh is the last artisan in his town in Gambia still using only natural dyes and traditional techniques. For more information on Musa's fabrics, click here. More from Still Standing ...

including dip-dyeing, direct application/printing on fiber and paper and ink-making using natural pigments. Essential steps for fabric preparation (mordanting and various painting processes) will be ...

The UK-based start-up has targeted one of the dirtiest parts of the apparel industry - dyeing fabric - with the world’s first digital dyeing process. “Traditionally in dyeing fabric ...

TOP TIP: Natural dyes work best on natural materials like cotton, silk and wool. If you start with a light material, the colours will stand out more, so we recommend dying onto white cotton fabric ...

that act as ‘natural fixers’ during dyeing,” says Ajioka. “This means no chemicals need to be added to ‘fix’ the colours onto fabric. In conventional dye-houses, chromium fixatives are ...