Using food scraps and natural materials to dye fabrics in beautiful pastel shades is a growing craft movement. We asked an expert how to get started with natural dyeing at home. Welcome to The ...

It’s common practice when using natural dyes on fabric or yarn to adjust the pH of the solution to achieve different color effects, and the same is true when using natural food colorings.

Today, Musa Jaiteh is the last artisan in his town in Gambia still using only natural dyes and traditional techniques. For more information on Musa's fabrics, click here. More from Still Standing ...

TOP TIP: Natural dyes work best on natural materials like cotton, silk and wool. If you start with a light material, the colours will stand out more, so we recommend dying onto white cotton fabric ...

The natural world and fiber arts have always been intrinsically tied. Before the introduction of synthetic materials such as ...

Most of the fabric is made to order ... Raw material, for most of the dyes, is natural and local. Tea waste, eucalyptus grandis, eupatorium (Nilgiri kozha) and ageratum are some of the plants ...