Natural Dyes Intro/FAQ - What are Natural Dyes? What is the procedure to dye with Natural Dyes? Why use Natural Dyes? Where can I learn more?

Why Natural Dyes? - Excerted from Ethel M. Mairet's 1916 book A Book on Vegetable Dyes, with Cheryl's updated footnotes.

How To Use Natural Dyes - Full Tutorial - Our full tutorial tells you step by step how to dye your own fabric, fiber, or yarn. Covers principles, equipment, mordanting, dyeing, and more.

Natural Dye Color Chart - Shows the color that results from different dye/mordant combinations for the 8 most popular dyes.

Questions asked of Cheryl - How do I wash my naturally dyed and/or silk products? Can I use these dyes to color soap or candles?

Are Mordants Safe? - What are the materials used to fix natural dyes to fabric and are they safe?

Dyeing with Indigo - How to dye with Indigo. The Natural Vermentation Vat. More about Indigo. See also Instant Indigo Vat.

Directions for Natural Fabric Paint Dyeing - Instructions for the popular "paint dyeing" with our natural dye paints. Enjoy natural dyes without the hassle of a dye-vat.

About Indigo - Natural Indigo is perhaps the oldest and one of the fastest dye known to man. It was the original dye of the "Levi's" blue jeans, a trademark color for durability.

About Logwood/Dyeing Instructions - Disappointed by Logwood extract? Try the true wood shavings - the colors are deeper, more varied, and above all, much faster to both light and washing.

Beyond the joy of their beauty, Naturally Dyed silks bring healthy, healing energy to whatever part of the body where they are worn.

Peace Silk - Commercial silk is made by boiling the cocoon alive and then reeling the silk. "Peace Silk", or Vegetarian Silk, is made by letting the moth emerge from the cocoon, mate and die happy, and then degumming the cocoons and spinning the fiber.

How to Raise Silkworms - This comprehensive silkworm raising tutorial covers the complete raising cycle, mulberry trees, eggs and strains, and processing the cocoons.

The Logwood Project - We get our Logwood and Fustic from the Logwood Project, a fair trade project working to help the natives of the Dominican Republic with economic and community development projects.

About the Artist - Cheryl Kolander has over 30 years of professional experience in the art of Natural Dyeing. She is the author of A Silkworker's Notebook, covering all aspects of working with silk, and Hemp! for Textile Artists, the first book written on the subject.