Playing with Coffee Now that we know all of the basics of fibre preparation for both wool and cotton, I thought it would be a good idea to see how well coffee can dye a variety of different craft supplies as a bit inspiration for everyone’s varying art and craft projects. Coffee is such an…
Dyeing with Frozen Blueberries can give you a variety of colours depending on pH.
We have previously looked at how using an iron mordant can effect dyeing with coffee. It is now time to try it dyeing with tea.
The next juice to try is pomegranate juice. Again Pomegranates can be very expensive at different times of the year so I decided to give the juice ago.
Its time to look at some juices. Its not always possible to get fruit all year round so why not try fruit juice? Our first experiment will be naturally dyeing with Cherry Juice. We will also look how time can effect some natural dye material and whether using a different breed of wool can change things up.
In this experiment we look at dying wool with Hibiscus Tea. We will also look how time can effect some natural dye material while using the solar dyeing method.
In these experiments we try coffee with non mordanted wool and iron mordanted wool.
How to dye wool with black beans. In this experiment we also look at how to adjust the ph to give a variety of colour from the one dye bath.
This is the first experiment with Coffee and tea where we play with 4 different dyes on wool roving.