Cochineal is one of the few natural water-soluble dyes to not degrade with time. Europe had no red dyes that could compare for vividness and endurance, and for a time cochineal was Mexico’s ...
“Natural dyeing is all about coaxing the colour out,” says Christine. This means you should always be gentle when using heat as boiling your dye can destroy the colour. Wild Colour by Jenny Dean.
Natural dyes may stain your clothes, hands and surfaces so be careful and get permission from a grown-up first. Use the colour chart to help you decide which colour, or colours you’d like to make.
But they also found out that some plants and animals (insects and mollusks) could yield color when mixed with hot water, and this was the origin of natural dyes. Pigments are suitable to be ...