Teresinha Roberts

Teresinha is a Brazilian-born textile artist specialising in natural dyes. She is regularly invited to talk to weavers, spinners & dyers, environmental & other groups.
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I will share with you some secrets that I have learnt over the years on how you can get bright and strong colours with natural dyes It is vital to both prepare the wool properly and to use tried and tested traditional natural dyes, such as woad, weld and madder etc

Natural Dyes - Tropical Dyes From Wood

Brazilwood, logwood and fustic are famous traditional natural dyes that produce bright colours on wool, cotton and silk; brazilwood yields rich reds, logwood purples and fustic strong yellows These three dyes are made from the heartwood of medium to large trees originally found in tropical forests

Natural dyes produce an extraordinary diversity of rich and complex colours as well as unexpected results, making them exciting to use It is easy to design using natural colours as they complement each other well and rarely clash

Natural dyes produce an extraordinary diversity of rich and complex colours as well as unexpected results, making them exciting to use It is easy to design using natural colours as they complement each other well and rarely clash
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