Coffee dye

My natural dye wardrobe. Left to right: Onion skins on cotton; Queen Anne's lace on silk; sumac leaves with iron modifier on linen; avocado skins and pits on linen; indigo on cotton; coffee grounds on silk. Plant-based dyes are sustainable fashion magic. Photo and dyes by Katrina Rodabaugh.

How to dye fabric with Coffee/Tea / Make Natural from Coffe or Tea

Dyeing and mark making with rust workshop run by Jule Mallett (website: julemallett.uk Facebook: Jule Mallett)

Tea and coffee make effective dyes for many surfaces and materials. Learn some tricks for using them in crafting.

(my very pink fingers smell delicious) blueberry, pomegranate raspberry green tea, pomegranate blueberry, earl grey, chai, peach, fusion breakfast green & black tea, chai green tea

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Tea is rich with tannin (good for gripping onto fabric), is inexpensive, and attaches well to cotton and linen. It typically gives you a light brown color if you don’t use any color modifiers. You can use an iron modifier on the fabric after you dye it with the tea, which will shift your colors to grey, and increase our fabric’s color- and lightfastness. At the iron sulfate stage, you will be able to experiment with different dipping and folding techniques to create patterns on your fabric.