Natural Dye Kit
Natural Dye Kit
It all begins with your ingredients. Maybe you want to upcycle some old clothes. Maybe you want to create the perfect gift. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, you’ll have all the ingredients you need inside this kit. 3 beautiful dyes, 2 mordants, and the ability to create 10+ colours.
Including:
1 x instruction booklet to show you how to use mordants, bundle-dye (eco-print), make a dye bath, and care for your fabrics
40 gm x Cutch (acacia catechu) which makes shades of tan, rust or dark brown with iron
40 gm x Marigold (tagetes) which makes shades of orange and yellow or olive green with iron
40 gm x Madder (rubia cordifolia) which makes shades of pink and red or dark purple with iron
40 gm x Myrobalan (terminalia cherbula) which is used as a tannin mordant for plant fibres, or to make a pale yellow or grey/purple with iron
40gm x Dye of the month - This month's dye of the month is Henna
20 gm x Iron (ferrous sulphate) to mordant up to 1kg fibre (iron acts as a colour modifier which will allow you to achieve deep purples, greys, greens and blues from your dyes)
100gm x Aluminium potassium sulphate (to mordant up to 1kg fibre)
A list of dye plants you can find at home in your kitchen and garden