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What's The Madder?
How to dye reds and oranges with madder root which can be a very trickly natural dye plant.
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Hand Dye Yarn Using Easter Egg Dye
Use up any left over Egg Dye to hand dye your wool yarn and produce great new colors. Use different techniques to create wonderful effects. Quick, safe and cheap to use.
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Tie-Dye T-shirt: The Diamond
The diamond is a colorful, easy-to-make tie-dye pattern that looks great when done properly. All you'll need is some dye, squirt bottles, rubber bands and a t-shirt!
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A Quick Look at Over-Dyeing
A description and projects for *over dyeing* fabric and yarns to create unique looks.
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Dyeing with *Butter and Eggs * (toadflax)
Toadflax is a common wild herb in Eurpe and North America. Besides herbal uses it also makes a nice yellow dye. Pick some and try it.
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DYEING: Kool Aide and Jello
Kool Aide and Jello are very good non-toxic dyes for wool and other protein fibers. Try out this simple recipe with the kids soon.
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DYEING: Temperatures and dye baths
Dye bath temperatures should seldom be very high. Many dyes process without the use of heat all! Check out this informative article.
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Fabric Dyeing Techniques
Dyeing fabric is a useful technique to know. Undyed fabrics can be dyed to a whole pallet of colors and dyed fabrics can be over dyed to give them a new lease of life.
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How to Dye Cross Stitch Fabrics
You don't need to buy specially colored fabric for your cross stitch and embroidery projects. Why not dye your own canvases?
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MULLIEN
Mullien a common weed can be used as a dye plant. Available everywhere in the Americas and Eur-Asia it makes browns and yellows.
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Renew Faded Black Cotton Clothes
Follow these easy instructions to use all-purpose tint and dye to refresh faded black tops and jeans.
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Tie-Dye Review
Here's a quick primer for those who want to expand their Tie-Dye experience.
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Wood Chip Dyeing
Various wood bark and chips can be used for dyeing a variety of colors. They need a bit more time and trouble to release their color but can produce some of the best natural tones particularly in blues and purples.
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Dyeing with Prickly Pear
How to use prickly pear fruit for natural dyeing to obtain the traditional Native American red color.
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Tumeric:Its more than a spice
Tumeric the common kitchen spice is actually a very ancient dyestuff. It produces several shades of yellow and gold and does not require any mordants.
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Make Your Own Natural Dyes
Learn what natural products make dye and then make your own and dye some clothing.
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Using Henna to Dye Hair
A vivid, multi-tonal and non-damaging alternative to chemical dyes, henna is simple to apply once a few basic rules have been learned.
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Dyeing: Safflower
Safflower has been used for centuries as a substitute for true saffron to dye food and cloth yellow. It also produces a nice madder red after the yellow tones have been extracted. GIve it a try!!
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Colored Cotton, Without Dyes
Naturally colored cotton, grown for thousands of years, yields earthy colors without dyes.
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A Natural Easter
Tips for celebrating Easter with natural treats and dyes, and a minimum of waste.
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Herbs to Dye For
Herbs from a dyer's garden.
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Let's Dye Easter Eggs!
Learn about dyes just in time for Easter!
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Mixing Henna to Dye Hair
Adding extra ingredients to your henna brew can subtly alter the final colour, treat or condition your hair, or simply make the mixture more pleasant to apply.
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Ombré Dip Dye Trend Summer 2008
The Ombré trend is definitely one of the most sophisticated of the season, in contrast to its younger sister, the tie-dye.
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Dyeing Marigolds
Marigolds and other garden flowers can be used to dye yarn and fiber. Here is a quick description of flower dyeing.
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DYEING: Easy Grocery Store Dyes
Here are some household items which make great dyes for fiber and cloth. This is a cheap safe way to learn the process of natural dyeing.
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DYEING: more secrets
Over dyeing can save many projects from being less interesting than you like. Here are some more suggestions.
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DYEING: Secret Techniques -- special effects!
Knowing the dye receptivity of various fibers allows you to be very creative in your fiber projects. This article looks at the different dyes one can use for cellulose and protein fibers and how combining them can produce unique effects.
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Dyeing:Lady's Bedstraw
Lady's Bedstraw is a common weed in much of North America. It was orignally brought to the Americas for cheese production and cloth dyeing. It produces a nice bright red much like madder root a plant relative. Try it in your dyeing experiments!
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Even Dyeing
Dyeing fiber and fabric to produce even color can be a bit tricky. Here are some hints to help produce nice even colors when you dye.
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The Mighty Dandelion!?
We all have either a love for dandelions, or a hatred for them. If you belong to the later group, I just might be able to change your mind.
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TURNING EVERYDAY ITEMS INTO COSTUMES
Ideas for last minute costumes and ways to turn everyday items into exciting outfits for Halloween.Lots of starting points for the person who needs a little help with creating a costume.
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Color It Plaid
Colorful cloth design in tartan plaids
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Cupra: a fiber not the car!
Another new cellulose based fiber is cupra. It very closely resembles silk in hand and feel. However, its production is more toxic than tencel.
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The Quiet Pleasure of Email Lists
Which of the many mailing lists on knitting, spinning, and other fiber-related topics should you subscribe to? In this review, I've discussed the popular mailing lists, along with some you may not have heard of.
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Color It Bright
Hand-Dyeing of wool and wool yarns
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Color Your Own Flowers
Impress your loved one this Valentine's by coloring their bouqet of flowers, right in your very own kitchen!
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Coloring Easter Eggs
Coloring Easter eggs with natural dyes.
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Demi, Semi, Permanent Hair Colour
What is the difference? What kind of hair are they used on? A basic guide to understanding the types of hair colour found in professional salons.
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Elder, the anti-viral herb.
Elder, Sambucus niger, Druids' hedge tree and healing herb, provides dye, jam, witches' wands and herb tea to stop virus influenza in its tracks.
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FRUITS AND COLOR
Color is the first thing we notice when we're looking at a fruit. What difference does color make?
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Gold, the New Trend in Hair Colour
The authority in hair colour launches four new shimmering gold tones for the spring.
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Henna Hair Colour Facts and Myths
The vivid, orange-red dye produced by the henna bush is safer and more permanent than regular hair dyes. Henna is the subject of many myths and misconceptions, however.
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How to survive the consulting process, or how not to give advice
A short discussion of the movie consulting business and its responses.
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Kodak Photo Prints At Home
Reducing the running cost of home inkjet printers is Kodak's main weapon in a new range of printers. Kodak promises longer lasting prints at half the cost
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Summer Camp at Home
Summer's Here And If You'd Like To Participate In Summer Camp Activities Without Having To Leave Home, Try Creating A Summer Camp For A Day At Home.
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Thinking of Inking...Read This First!
Ink selection got you confused? This articles clears up types of ink...but you're on your own for color choices!
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Tie-dyed, Bell Bottoms and Lava Lamps; The Sixties are Back
Everywhere you look, they're there! Tie-dyed t-shirts, bell-bottom pants,midriffs and haulters. Yes, we're recycling the sixties and putting a 21st century spin on it.
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Tips for Distressing New Jeans
Designers are charging anywhere from $180-$400 to fade brand new jeans in all the right places. Why spend designer prices when you can do the work yourself?
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What Is Katazome?
Here is a wonderful article by John Marshall explaining what Katazome is. Read on and find out for yourself.
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