Create beautiful moments and memories with your kids with this great craft idea using natural dyes to eco print on fabric. Use leaves and flowers and get your kids connecting with nature. Step by step Tutorial, great for beginners.

Natural dye technique - How to dye fabric using only dried flowers petals and natural ingredients

In this blog post I’ll show you how to quickly and simply extract dye from coreopsis flowers using hot water. This makes a beautiful dye that can be used like watercolour paint. Then we’ll play with lemon juice and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) to make a wider range of colours. The paint only takes...

NATURAL DYEING | REBECCA DESNOS on Instagram: "Flower hammering is so addictive 🤩🌸🌿 This method is in my book called Plant Dye Zine. ✍🏽 Comment the word “ZINE” to get a link to find out more about my book. The tutorial in Plant Dye Zine was generously written by the incredible @samorn_sanixay. There are bonus steps for treating the fabric after hammering to help the prints last the longest. I used flowers and leaves from my dye garden, but it works with many other plants, e.g. herbs…

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It started with avocados. "Remember when people were dying fabric with the pits and skins, like, three or four years ago? I tried it and became so obsessed

Introductory notes: The search for hidden colours, forms and textures is for me the lure of eco dyeing and eco printing, and a form of art. Eco dyeing and eco printing are essentially direct contac…

Textile Design, Fashion Design, Surface Design

This summer I’ve made dyes from a few flowers from my garden. In this blog post, I’ll share my dye notes and colour swatches for three colours of buddleja (butterfly bush), yarrow and goldenrod flowers. I used cellulose fabric for all of the swatches — organic cotton, bamboo viscose and linen. Aluminium dye pots were...