Natural Dye Kit

The world of natural dyes is vast and varied, and this kit gives the beginner dyer a perfect introduction into the beauty and wonder of creating color from nature.

Included are the ingredients to dye around 4.37 yards of lightweight fabric, or around 600g of yarn, light to medium shades of pink, orange, yellow and purple. In other words, you will be able to dye 1.09 yards each of the four colors, for a total of 4.37 yards.  Small garments or other items can also be used - it is up to you!

The dyes can only be used to dye natural fibers, not synthetic, but can be used with either plant (i.e. cotton) or animal (i.e. wool or silk).

In order to be colorfast, fibers must first be mordanted, or treated with a soluble metal. Plant (cellulose) fibers such as cotton must also be treated with a tannin.

This kit includes alum as the mordant, and tannin powder made from the galls formed on oak trees. It also contains logwood chips which yield gorgeous soft purples, osage sawdust for yellow, ground madder root for lovely peachy orange shades, and cochineal  for pink.

Comprehensive instructions in the kit will take you through the step by step process of preparing your fibers and dyeing with these dried dyestuffs.

Details:

• Ingredients:
  • 90g alum (a food safe ingredient made of potassium aluminum sulfate)
  • 30g gallnut (tannin powder made from the galls formed on oak trees)
  • 15g  logwood chips (haematoxylon campechianum)
  • 15g osage orange sawdust (maclura pomifera)
  • 15g madder root (rubia tinctoria)
  • 7g cochineal (dactylopius coccus)
• Box size: 6" x 3" x 2"
• 100% Plant based
• Made in Canada

Handmade with love by Julie and her small team in Toronto, Canada.