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Recycling of an old madder dye pot
Recyclage du vieux bain de garance Il suffit de filtrer les vieux bains, de chauffer le liquide à 80° environ. Puis on ajoute de...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 16, 20241 min read
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Michel Garcia about Persicaria plants
Soignons nos persicaires. Certains de mes plants de persicaire sont bien verts et les autres sont bien jaunes ! Les plantes jaunies sont...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 16, 20242 min read
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Printing on Wool Fabric with Mordant Dye Pastes
Recipe for Printing on Fabric with Mordant Dyes Ingredients and Materials: Weld extract: 20 grams Logwood extract: 30 grams Cochineal...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 14, 20242 min read
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Recipe for Block Printing with Cutch and Iron Acetate Pastes on Wool Fabric
Materials Needed: Low-density polypropylene block Adhesive velvet for coating the block Cutch extract Iron acetate paste Wool fabric or...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 14, 20242 min read
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Some recipes for printing pastes
1. Printing Pastes with Cutch and Iron Acetate Recipe for Michel Garcia's Iron Acetate Paste for Printing on Wool: Ingredients:...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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Making Lake From a Leftover Dye Bath
Making Lake from a Leftover Dye Bath Ingredients: 28 grams of aluminum sulfate Sodium carbonate Dye bath leftovers (e.g., from St. John’s...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 14, 20242 min read
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Recipe for Preparing a Big Fructose Indigo Vat
Recipe for Preparing a Big Fructose Indigo Vat Ingredients: 300 grams of high-quality indigo powder 1 kilogram of sugar (fructose) 600...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 14, 20242 min read
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TWO-STEP MORDANTING: TANNIN and AL acetate
Two-step mordanting: tannin and aluminum salt. Cellulose fibers possess inherent properties that enable them to form bonds with tannins,...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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ANIMALIZATION of CELLULOSIC FABRIC: CHITOSAN
CELLULOSIC FABRIC: CHITOSAN We are pleased to announce that Michel Garcia's new course, "The Complete Guide to Dyeing Cellulosic Fibers,"...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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Tutorial VII Dyeing Cellulosic Fibers
We are glad to release our brand-new video tutorial by Michel Garcia: "Complete Guide to Dyeing Cellulosic Fibers"! We are offering an...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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Making Lakes for Recycling of Dye Bath Leftovers
Making Lakes for Recycling of Dye Bath Leftovers Every dyer, whether a craftsman or a hobbyist engaging in natural dyeing occasionally,...
Olga Kazanskaya
Jun 12, 20241 min read
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Madder Red (post by Michel Garcia)
Madder red 100% vegetable-based The Atrebates, ancient inhabitants of Northern Gaul, had developed a real textile industry, notably...
Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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More about tannin...(post by Michel Garcia)
The tannin black pigment What to do with an old gall nut bath that has been used to mordant a cotton fabric before dyeing? Nothing is...
Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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Beautiful yellow pigment from Sophora
Sophora Yellow, a beautiful pigment production!
Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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Magic Safflower (post by Michel Garcia)
Safflower rose, and pigment from washing waters Let's separate the seeds from the ligules, for it's time to sow safflower seeds A good...
Olga Kazanskaya
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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