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Natural Dyes on Wool with Timber Creek Farm

Introduction and Welcome

New Students Start Here
Meet Your Teacher (6:00)
What is Natural Dyeing? (6:50)
What Do You Need? (10:44)
Essential Tools - Includes Printable Checklist (0:35)

Basic Steps of Natural Dyeing

Part One: Preparing the Yarn - Mordant (2:10)
Part Two: Preparing the Dye (7:12)
Slides of "Steps for Dyeing" (0:40)

Using a Dyer's Workbook

Keeping Track of Dye Results (4:04)
Buy the Book - Natural Dyes on Wool

What are Exhaust Dyes?

Explanation of Exhaust Dyes (3:01)

Kitchen Dyes

Foods that Commonly Produce Dye Color (6:39)
Making Dyes from Food and Scraps - Black Bean Dye (5:35)
How much do you need?
Discussion of Fugitive Dyes - Not All Color is a Dye Color (3:28)

Foraged Dyes

Where to Forage (3:12)
How Much to Gather
How to Create a Foraged Dye - Purple Dead Nettle and Dandelions (3:33)
Working with Foraged Materials for Dye - Modifier (3:59)

Cultivated Garden Dyes

What to Grow?
Flowers and Green Plants - Marigolds, Herbs, Lilies, Rudbeckia... (0:39)
Making a Dye Bath from the Garden

Last but Not Least...

The Reveal: Black Bean, Purple Dead Nettle, and Dandelion Dyes (3:04)

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