It's hard to imagine that avocados could get any better until you learn that you can dye with them! Both avocado skins and stones (pits) can be used to make dye that ranges in colors from tans to peach to pink to rust. Greyish lavender tones can also be made by dipping avocado dyed fiber into an iron water after bath. In this tutorial, I will show you how to dye with avocados.
Supplies. Our friend Tatiana of Zuahaza is on the blog sharing a DIY natural avocado dye tutorial you can use for naturally dyed yarn and t-shirts! With this guide you will learn how to make a beautiful range of pinks, apricot, blush and even grey dyes using avocado pits and skins. This low waste recipe uses avocado skins and pits to create beautiful, all-natural, and vegan-friendly pink avocado dye! Learn how to extract colour from avocado stones and naturally dye fibre.
This one-hour mini-course covers everything you need to know to start with the basics of natural dyeing with avocados. With immediate access to this four-step process, I show you how to create beautiful shades of salmon, pink, peach & coral from avocado stones, pits, or skins. Dyeing with avocado is a safe and simple process, perfect for beginners to natural dyeing.
Both the seeds (also called stones or pits) and the skins contain colour. They produce a quite colourfast dye of the most unexpected and delightful pink. Avocados make a great dye for yarn, wool, silk protein fibres, and cotton or linen plant fibres.
Dyeing with avocados is getting more popular nowadays. Easy DIY Project: How To Make Natural Dye with Avocado Pits Materials: Clean avocado pits - After cutting into my avocado, I wash the pit and then collect them in a jar and freeze them until I'm ready to make my natural dye. 2-3 pieces of fabric or clothing made of 100% natural fibers like cotton, hemp or linen.
Let's Make Avocado Dye! Check out this fun and easy DIY tutorial to make this natural dye for paper and fabric crafts. The color might just surprise you! While you are cooking your dye, pre-wash your textile in hot water, rinse and gently squeeze out the excess water. After your avocado has completed the dye extraction process in Step 2, you should have a lovely shade of dye bath ranging anywhere from a light amber color to a medium rosey shade.