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*Four Years of the CasaCaribe Dream*
A personal update from the person behind this website. A little break.
Dec 17, 20242 min read
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The Art of Fixing Colors: A Guide to MORDANTS in Natural Dyeing
In this blog post, we explored the significance of mordants in the art of natural dyeing, highlighting their role as essential agents that f
Sep 15, 20232 min read
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Glossary of NATURAL DYES and colours
We'll be exploring a short glossary of the most commonly used words in the enchanting art of natural dyeing.
Jul 26, 20233 min read
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Ecoprint with flowers from my garden; Marigold and coreopsis flower | Natural dye | Botanical colour
ECOPRINT is an eco-friendly and sustainable method of transferring the intricate shapes and pigments of flowers onto fabric
Jul 12, 20232 min read
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MORDANT PRINT; making cloth napkins for our ITALIAN WEDDING.
In preparation for our Italian wedding, we made a choice to craft unique cloth napkins utilizing the captivating mordant printing technique
Jun 6, 20234 min read
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HOW to Make NATURAL WATERCOLOURS with EGGSHELLS | organic watercolour with food waste.
Easy tutorial on how to make natural watercolours using eggshells, create your own organic paint with food waste from your kitchen.
May 12, 20222 min read
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NATURAL DYES, list of suppliers around the world.
a list of suppliers worldwide to buy all the products for natural dye.
Apr 6, 20221 min read
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Easter eggs, How to dye them with natural colours: Onion skins
How to dye red easter egg with natural colours using onion skins
Apr 1, 20223 min read
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TANNINS... WHAT, WHY AND HOW? using tannin to mordant cellulose fabric.
Tannins? When you start digging more into the world of natural dyes, you will step over and over again with the word tannin. You will...
Oct 29, 20213 min read
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How to MORDANT CELLULOSE FIBRES for natural dye | CasaCaribe
tutorial, how to mordant cellulose fabric for natural dye.
Jun 28, 20213 min read
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The BEST 5 books to learn NATURAL DYE.
The BEST 5 books to learn NATURAL DYE.
Here I share with you, The 5 best book you must have if you want to learn about natural dyes
Apr 28, 20214 min read
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How to know if a fabric is NATURAL or SYNTHETICAL... to NATURAL DYE at home.
When dyeing with natural colour, the selection of the fabric is a key step, Natural dyes only work with natural fibre. this means fibre...
Feb 22, 20212 min read
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How to make your own IRON WATER for natural dyeing.
Once you have dye your fabric, you can get more hues using a colour modifier. You can change the colour of your fabric with different...
Feb 15, 20212 min read
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NATURAL DYE with CHAMOMILE TEA BAG
Dyeing with natural colours like making a perfect cuppa.
Here I'm going to show you how to natural dye using a chamomile tea bag
Feb 8, 20212 min read
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NATURAL DYE with ONION SKINS
One of the things I like the most about dyeing with natural colours us that you can found the source of the colours at home. The skin of...
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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NATURAL DYE with AVOCADO SKINS | Millennial pink
Avocados are trendy right now, from avo toast to guacamole, they seem to be everywhere on Instagram, but for me, Avocados are a familiar...
Jan 25, 20212 min read
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NATURAL DYE, will the colour fade away?
When my friends and family see the pieces that I dyed using natural colours; they are always sceptical about the colour because they...
Jan 25, 20213 min read
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How to MORDANT ANIMAL FIBRES for natural dye - Protein fibres.
One of the most asked questions I received about natural dyeing is: Will the colour go away? The answer is not an easy one, because the...
Jan 18, 20212 min read
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BUNDLE DYE with NATURAL COLOURS | Personalized a Furoshiki using food waste | Wrapping gift ideas
I'm going to show you how I personalized a Furoshiki using food waste with the bundle natural dyeing technique. My family is really big,...
Dec 21, 20202 min read
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NATURAL DYE with NETTLES, a joy all year round.
One of the first things I noticed when moving to the countryside of England is that nettles are everywhere, so when I discovered that it...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
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