Can You Use Food Colouring To Dye Fabric?
Using food colouring to dye fabric is a relatively easy process and a simple way to try dyeing for beginners. Read on for all of our top tips to get started!
Using food colouring to dye fabric is a relatively easy process and a simple way to try dyeing for beginners. Read on for all of our top tips to get started!
In this Living for Dyeing column, writer Ailish Henderson explains what is Batik, history, how it can be used and teaches us the basic steps so that readers can have a go themselves.
Franziska Ebner and Romana Hasenoehrl take you on a detailed visual and texted based journey through the chapter and verse of the natural dyeing world. Prepare to rethink the items around you; from red cabbage to bark – what will you try to dye with?
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I went to a girls’ grammar school where they thought it was appropriate to spend 4 years studying Latin but only about 6 weeks
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Dyeing only a selected part of a textile can be tricky! Across the centuries people in many different cultures have found ways of preparing their
This month I’m talking about the heroes and (usually) heroines of the dyeing world. First up is India Flint (@prophetofbloom) who strides the world
Ever since I started using natural dyes I’ve been intrigued by descriptions of dyeing silk to make ‘red tape’. There was the whole fascination of
Dyeing isn’t the only thing I do but I find I’m doing it a lot! Spare ten minutes – get the dye pot on. Lately