Article Info

Article Title
Using Mordants to Expand Your Palette
Author
Brooke Sinnes
Issue date
Autumn 2025
Issue number
50
Issue topic
Plants
Description
This article explores how using different mordants (in this case, potassium aluminum sulfate and tannin with aluminum acetate) can affect the final color of your yarn. It provides several dyeing recipes and explains how to dye the yarn used for the shawl pattern included in this issue.
Article topic list
dyeing, natural dyeing, prep it, Merino, flax, silk, color, experimenting