Are you looking for a natural way to dye your fabric? So many beautiful colors occur in nature: the bright yellow of marigold flowers, the beautiful purple of red onion skin, or the neutral tones of tea and coffee. You can use these completely natural sources to dye your fabric! But how do you dye fabric with marigolds? You'll need equal weights marigolds to fabric and a mordant solution. Ever wondered how to dye with marigold flowers? The humble marigold makes a beautiful and easy color that captures summer.
Discover the art of dyeing textile fibers with marigold flowers (Latin: Tagetes erecta). Naturally dyeing fabrics with Marigold flowers is a beautiful way to bring the magic color of nature to any cloth or silk. Since working with marigold dye powder & coming to appreciate its colour potential, I have been cultivating & saving the flowers for further experiments.
Without further adieu, let's take a look at how to dye with marigold. How to dye with marigolds using solar dyeing and immersion dyeing methods. FREE natural dyeing mini guide to get started with natural color.
Marigold dye can range in color from a brilliant, sunny yellow to a deep crimson, depending on the color of the flower. It is one of the easiest natural dyes to make, using just a couple of ingredients and taking only a few hours. The dye works well on all types of fabrics, including silk, cotton, wool and yarn.
Dyeing Silks with Marigold Flowers C reating plant-based natural dyes is a magical experience, and it's actually easier than it looks! There are a lot of tutorials out there, and I read many of them, but the following instructions are based completely on my own process. My son absolutely loved this activity. Marigolds are one of the easiest flowers to experiment with due to accessibility and a simple dye process, yet here I am, 15 years into dyeing, using them for the first time.
One of my 2018 goals was to plant a small dye garden. I bought a few black hollyhocks and lots of coreopsis, along with a few extra marigolds to plant in with the tomatoes.