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Noble Fir Dye

January 1, 2021

If you love having fresh evergreen in your home for holiday decorations, keep that aroma brewing by recycling the boughs in your dye pot - needles and all! The natural tannin in the branches will give you a beige color on textile, but with an iron water shift, you can achieve deep grays as well. This tutorial will show you how to brew dye from a noble fir Christmas tree and shift color with iron water, plus the resulting color swatch samples (cotton, bamboo, linen & silk) with various mordants.

In Art, Artist, Color Quest, Fiber, Fiber Art, Natural Dye, Textile Art, Tutorial, Video, YouTube, YouTuber, Alum, Mordant Tags Natural Dye, Natural Color, Botanical dye, fiber, Fiber Art, Textile, Textile Art, YouTube, YouTuber, Dye, Video, Tutorial, Color Quest, Noble Fir, Christmas Tree, Recycling
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