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Pine & Spruce Branch Dye

January 22, 2021

Picking up downed evergreen branches of pine & spruce trees not only cleans up your yard, but can be repurposed into some beautiful colors in your dye pot. The natural tannin in the branches will give you a beige color on textile, but with the addition of all-in-one mordant of alum & iron water, you can achieve olive greens and rich browns as well. This tutorial will show you how to brew dye from foraged pine & spruce branches and expand your palette with an all-in-one mordant technique, plus the resulting color swatch samples (cotton & silk).

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, Forage, Idaho, Pine, Spruce, Branch, Pine Branch, Spruce Branch
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