You don’t want to miss this episode if you would like to get inside tips on how to use dye to tweak the colours of natural fibres. Tiffany Henschel is my guest in this podcast episode, and I am in awe of how she performs miracles with dye, on delicate fibres like merino wool and silk, and she shares her inside tips in this conversation.

Tiffany uses Jacquard dye for delicate fabrics like wool and silk. For other fabrics, there is Rit dye, and also the ever popular dye that you can use in the washing machine, Dylon.

Tiffany is a True Autumn. In our conversaiton we talk about how to consider the original colour of a garment when dyeing it.

Another of Tiffany’s tips is to repurpose fabric belts as headbands:

Books that have made an impression on Tiffany

M L Longworth - A Provençal Mystery series, mystery books set in Provence

Quiet by Susan Cain

Mindset by Carol Dweck

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Evening loungewear

This was such an exciting topic that I have devoted a whole special post to it in great detail, available on July 5 for all paid subscribers!

Books that have made an impression on Jorunn

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

How to connect with Tiffany

Tiffany is on Instagram. Look her up there, her Insta ID is @tiffanyhenschel. Click your way into to Tiffany’s style board on Pinterest, which she talks about in the podcast episode.

How to connect with me:

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Would you like to be a guest on my podcast?

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