Natural Dyeing Demonstration

Yesterday I did a natural dyeing demonstration for the the Hertfordshire members of ERTF. We looked at flour paste resist, crumple dyeing and bleaching back indigo with potassium permanganate followed by citric acid.

This photo on the right is the indigo fabric tied, I have just applied the potassium permanganate and the fabric is changing colour. When is is rinsed in citric acid it will turn white or pale blue.

Thanks very much Barbara for the photo's. I thought it went well and it was good practice for the natural dyeing workshops in two weeks.