This designer developed a safer, simpler, and healthier solution to conventional fabric dye—using scraps of old fruits and veggies. Nicole Stjernsward, a London-based design technologist, has ...

Learn how to make natural fabric dyes at home with this easy guide. Go all-natural with basic kitchen and pantry ingredients! If you’re looking for a new hobby to keep yourself occupied during the ...

For both old and new gardeners, it’s almost inevitable that come harvest time you’ll have more vegetables than you know what to do with. Pickling, canning or even donating your excess produce are the ...

Mar. 22—Conventional dyes on your clothes may be pretty, but they can also be toxic, both to yourself and to the environment. But there is an alternative. Making your own natural dyes at home is a fun ...

Create your own natural colorants and create a mint fabric dye. Take your summer mint abundance and turn it into yellow and green dyes. In A Garden to Dye For (St. Lynn’s, 2014), Chris McLaughlin ...

There are thousands of natural materials that make glorious colors in fabric, from rhubarb and dahlias to indigo and groundnuts. Natural dyeing is an ancient tradition, and the techniques behind this ...

The asters and goldenrod have long since disappeared from the woods and fields near Mount Tremper, N.Y., a tiny town in the Catskills where Rita Schwab, a weaver and textile artist, has a quarter-acre ...