Botanical Colors

Mordant Monday: It's winter, and many of us have taken up knitting and crocheting during the cooler weather. While I'm thinking about knitting, my mind wanders to mordanting (of course), and some of the questions we’ve received from curious dyers.

This Mordant Monday, I thought I'd start with some common questions when mordanting changes the hand feel and quality of wool fibers.

The natural dye process uses a lot of heat, and a fair amount of handling: stirring, squeezing, rinsing. It’s easy for wool to react to all of this and become rougher feeling, even felted! Check out this week’s Mordant Monday to avoid the pitfalls and some easy solutions for wool fibers.