Dye linen fabric

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All about how to dye linen fabric. If you are looking for something fun to do over the weekend to zhuzh up your Thanksgiving table, this is the craft for you!

A small list of the best books and websites for learning how to dye fabric naturally with plant-based materials.

How to turn plants like lavender, nettles, goldenrod, and elderberries into natural dyes for fabrics like cotton, linen plus wool and silk. Use this starter guide to begin creating botanical dyes from your garden.

Linen is a durable fabric made from flax plant fibers. It is up to three times stronger than cotton. Linen can survive many washes and even gets softer the more it's washed. This may explain why linen fibers are used to make towels, bed sheets, table cloths and other items that are frequently washed.

A collection of images depicting how I achieved multiple variations of color from seven different dye goods.

Keep things au naturale with this easy tutorial.

Tea is rich with tannin (good for gripping onto fabric), is inexpensive, and attaches well to cotton and linen. It typically gives you a light brown color if you don’t use any color modifiers. You can use an iron modifier on the fabric after you dye it with the tea, which will shift your colors to grey, and increase our fabric’s color- and lightfastness. At the iron sulfate stage, you will be able to experiment with different dipping and folding techniques to create patterns on your fabric.

Dye in every shade of the rainbow using natural ingredients and DIY napkin - The House That Lars Bui