While your fabric is nicely simmering with the fixative on the stove you will need to use another pot to prepare your natural dye.
Diy natural fabric dye.
As general rules you will need to use 1 part produce to 2 parts water then simmer them for about 1 hour.
To get the fabric ready for the dye bath you will have to soak the fabric in a colour fixative before the dye process.
Wearing gloves squirt dyes directly onto the fabric.
Experiment with other items to create new natural dye.
Plant based fibers such as cotton and linen need a tannin mordant followed.
So to give the dye a place to stick you must add something that clings to both the fabric and the dye a mordant.
The best and perhaps my favorite part of natural dyeing is the room for experimentation.
Now you re ready to dye.
Use this list of natural dyes to plan your color scheme.
My process looks like this but there s a lot of flexibility in natural dyeing so feel free to run wild.
In a large pot add the extracted dye solution.
Once you ve conquered pink and red dyes it is easy to learn to make blue purple orange yellow black peach green and brown dyes.
We use natural dyes for fabric because we want something non carcinogenic and not harmful to our environment.
Add enough water to the dye solution so the fabric or yarn can move freely in the dye bath.
Fancy term number two basically means soak the fabric in a fixative so the dye sticks.
Natural dyeing is gradually making its way in the global market and the production of naturally dyed eco friendly textiles itself is a boon to save the environment from hazardous synthetic dyes 1.
The thing is that there are a lot of mordant options so here again google will help you know.
Remove the fabric from the mordant bath.
Plan to put adjacent primary colors red yellow blue or secondary colors like orange green and purple next to each other.
Put 1 2 cup salt in 8 cups of water.
Natural dyes for fabric.
Prepare the fabric with a fixative.
Add the fabric and heat to 180 to 200 f.
Leftover fruit and veggie materials such as peels and skins are ideal for creating natural fabric dyes in a variety of colors.
Preparing the natural dyes for fabric.
For most materials bring your mordant to a boil and add in your fabric.
If you re using berries to dye your fabric you have to use a salt fixative.
Strain and return dye to the pot.
Dispose of the mordant solution.
This will make the colour set in the fabric.
In the areas where they run together they will blend together and create a third color.
