In this blog post I’ll share with you my first experiment with fresh leaf indigo dyeing on cellulose fibres. I’m in love with this pretty shade of teal! I didn’t know if it would work on cellulose as I’ve read that it’s best on protein fibres, but I’m thrilled with the results.
This is something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time, and a couple of months ago I set up a small organic woad vat to dye blue.Continue Reading →
I dyed a length of fabric for a customer in Brazil a few weeks ago and she was planning on making it into a daybed cover. I just received the photos of the final thing and I love it!
The fabric is a satin weave organic cotton and it was dyed with natural indigo. It’s the biggest piece of fabric I’ve ever dyed; at 3 m in length and 1.6 m in width it was quite tricky to fold up to make the pattern!
