The Dyer’s Picnic: Cochineal, Indigo and Madder

Mesa, AZ Last Saturday, I did my semi-annual dye class for the Fiber Factory in Mesa.  We take a full day and use cochineal, indigo, madder and osage orange.  Since this combination includes all of the primary colors, theoretically we can derive any color on the color wheel.   Although both indigo and cochineal were used…

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Dyes that Madder: A Rainbow of Colors from Indigo, Cochineal, Madder and Osage Orange

Mesa, AZ Last Saturday, I did the second of two dye classes that I do for the Fiber Factory in Mesa, AZ every spring and autumn.  The second class builds on the skills from the first class and we add dyestuffs that are a bit trickier to work with but which offer big payoffs in…

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