Discover all the colours your kitchen scraps have to offer
Have you ever wanted to try natural dyeing but weren’t sure where to begin?
Natural dyeing can be surprisingly accessible. You don’t need a garden full of dye plants or a large collection of expensive specialist materials to get started. Many useful sources of colour can be found among everyday kitchen scraps that might otherwise be thrown away. It’s an uncomplicated and fun way to experiment with colour, giving a second (or third) life to your old bedsheets and clothing.
Using 11 accessible dye materials, this book explores more than 130 colours and hues and gives you the practical knowledge to start creating and experimenting with natural colour yourself.
What you’ll learn
The guide walks you through the natural dyeing process step by step, including:
- choosing suitable fabrics, equipment and materials
- scouring cellulose fabrics correctly
- using tannins and mordants
- preparing and storing kitchen scraps
- extracting colour and creating dye baths
- dyeing fabric step by step
- using modifiers to expand your colour palette
- washing and caring for naturally dyed fabrics
- understanding colourfastness
- troubleshooting common problems
- recording results and developing your own natural colour palette
Dye with 11 everyday materials
Learn to dye with:
- avocado pits and skins
- yellow onion skins
- red onion skins
- pomegranate peels
- black tea
- coffee
- rooibos tea
- hibiscus
- turmeric
- black beans
- carrot tops
Each material is explored with practical instructions and photographed colour results, so you can see the range of shades possible.
Explore more than 130 colours and hues
Natural dyeing doesn’t have to mean only beige and brown.
The guide includes more than 130 photographed colours and hues, showing how fabric preparation, mordants, modifiers, and different dye materials can dramatically change the final colour.
You’ll learn how to follow the process, experiment deliberately, and understand why your results change.
Designed specifically for cellulose fabrics
This book focuses on plant-based cellulose fibres, including cotton, linen, and hemp.
The preparation and mordanting methods have been chosen specifically with cellulose fibres in mind.
Please note: this is not a guide to dyeing wool or silk.
Beginner friendly
You don’t need previous natural dyeing experience.
The book starts with the fundamentals and explains the complete workflow before taking you through each stage in detail. Rather than giving you a collection of recipes to copy, it helps you understand what you’re doing and why so that you can eventually experiment with greater confidence.
It is especially suited to sewists, quilters, textile artists, upcyclers, and other makers who want to introduce naturally dyed fabrics into their work.
What you’ll receive
This is a digital product. Your purchase includes:
- 184-page full-colour PDF ebook
- detailed natural dyeing instructions
- photographs of real dye experiments and results
- 11 kitchen-scrap dye materials
- 130+ colours and hues
- reference information, troubleshooting, and care guidance
You can read the ebook digitally on a computer or compatible tablet or device.
No physical book, fabric, dye materials, or other physical products will be shipped.
A note about natural colour
Natural dyes are inherently variable. Your results may differ from the colours shown in the book depending on your fabric, water, dye material, mordant, quantities, temperature, pH, and other conditions.
The photographed samples show real dyeing results and the range of colours that can be achieved rather than guaranteeing an identical colour.
Digital download
Your PDF will be available to download after your purchase has been completed.
If you experience any problems accessing your ebook, please contact me and I’ll be happy to help.
Personal use
Your purchase is for your own personal use. The ebook may not be copied, shared, redistributed, resold, uploaded elsewhere, or reproduced in whole or in part.
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