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14th Century Cotehardie – Dyeing the Fabric

14th Century Cotehardie – Dyeing the Fabric

Read part 1: Drafting the Pattern While working on the cotehardie pattern, I was also thinking about fabric. The lining was easy – a midweight off-white linen. The main fabric was trickier. I wanted to do a particolored cotehardie, and I had been learning about 

What Colour do Onion Skins Make? Viking Era Natural Dyes

What Colour do Onion Skins Make? Viking Era Natural Dyes

I recently participated in a natural dyes workshop, put on by Fjellborg, the Viking group I have joined in Denver. It was so much fun and I learned masses. All the linen and wool which we wanted to dye had to first be mordanted to