Fundamentals of Natural Dyeing with Flowers and Food Waste
This workshop is the perfect primer to the world of at-home natural dyeing. Swati Bansal will show you how to bundle-dye your own silk square, including proper preparation, pattern making, and the post-dye drying and steaming process. Along the way, learn how to mordant cellulose and protein fibers, how to identify and use common household ingredients as dyestuffs, as well as how to extract and store color. Included is a natural dye resource guide highlighting the basic processes involved along with a few inspirational DIY projects using natural dyes.
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About
Swati Bansal
Foraging Color is a sustainable natural dye studio, based in Brooklyn, New York. We are passionate about working with natural fibers and dyeing them with beautiful dye pigments extracted from plants, flowers, leaves, vegetable pits and peels, spices etc., ensuring a zero waste production. Run by Swati Bansal, an advocate of slow-living, the dye project aims to embrace nature in our homes and wardrobes, find beauty in perfect imperfections of the human hand, and create a sense of community by exploring and reviving heritage techniques and craftsmanship.