Comments on: DIY: Make Natural Non Toxic Dye

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:26:35 +0000

Wow! Great post. I’m a knitter/beginning spinner trying to step into a more sustainable kind of lifestyle. We are starting to look into foraging and planting and using what we have locally for eating, etc. I can’t wait to use your technique on some hand-spun wool!!

By: Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:55:26 +0000

Yep! You’d simmer it on the stove.

By: nikki

nikki — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:42:58 +0000

Hi, i was writing up the procedure for this and i was wondering… When your simmering the salt fix, do you put on the stove?

By: Lynda

Lynda — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:17:43 +0000

This past summer I used perilla to dye some fabric. I wrote a post about it here: http://www.bloombakecreate.com/2011/07/dyeing-with-perilla/

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:16:00 +0000

I wanted to turn my faded jeans a dark blue…what would you suggest using and do you think it would work on jeans?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:13:00 +0000

can this work on polyester (teddy bear fur)?

By: Emily Sloane414

Emily Sloane414 — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:40:00 +0000

I just visited a women’s coop weaving group in Guatemala and they use the entire plant and let it soak for 12-30 hours before even putting in their yarn. Then they soak the yarn for another 12 hours. The colors they got were very rich and vibrant, also some were quite unexpected (basil made a very pretty purple according to them, using the flowers, stem and leaves)

By: Mark Ashton

Mark Ashton — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:11:00 +0000

My
personal favorite for summer is Raspberry cast-off. No matter if you are making
jelly or ice-cream all those seeds and red pulp make and excellent die. I
typically use it like tie-dying. Treat eh shirt as normal, put it in a bag and
add the red-pulp. I work it in the fabric for a few minutes and then let sit
for a little while and rinse.

Colors
vary in the shirts as in the fruit, but that is the magic. When completed, they
look like an old favorite tie-dye shirt I’ve had for years. I typically tie-dye
the shirts i ruin while canning.

By: Rashi_jain1996

Rashi_jain1996 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:13:00 +0000

ITS REALLY NICE TO MAKE THIS NATURAL DYE N WANTED TO TALK TO YOU SOMETHING ABOUT MY OWN PROJECT…..PLZ MAIL ME IF POSSIBLE ON MY ID

By: SHINeeingblaqisland

SHINeeingblaqisland — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:16:00 +0000

how much water do you put inside the pot when you put the fabric (w/ the fix) in?