Natural Dyeing With Onion Skins

An onion skin dye can be your simplest entry point into the world of natural dyeing. I talked a lot about natural dyeing with onion skins and other plant materials in episode 52 of the podcast check out the podcast notes and a link to the video if youve not watched it.

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There are many plants that can be used in a natural dye bath but onion skins are one of the best to start with because they produce lovely colors that are easily extracted and the color tends to stick to fibers extremely well.

Natural dyeing with onion skins. If you want to start doing some dyeing at home natural dyeing with onion skins is a good first project. Follow these instructions for dying wool silk or other protein based fibres the process for dying cotton and other cellulose fibres is a little different. This is because you can create lovely rich dyes from onion skins with no mordant as the skin already produces its own tannins.

While other natural colors require a fixative called a mordant to keep them from fading onion skin dye does not. Natural dyes red onion skins. Onion skins are one of the most readily available and reliable natural dyestuffs.

Red onion skins create a different range of colors than yellow onions skins so its important to keep your dye sources separated. I took my time when creating these dye samples. If you want an easy introduction to natural dyeing start saving those onion skins.

For a beginners introduction to dyeing with onion skins and to compare color results of red onion skins and yellow onion skins read my previous blog post. The process of achieving color from onion skins is one of the easiest sources of natural color and is a great place to start if your just beginning with natural dying. I gathered plenty of yellow onion skins to fill my dye pot completely.

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