Natural hues sourced from sustainable plants add depth and authenticity for a lived-in aesthetic.
What is icebreaker nature dye?
Natural, renewable plant pigments are sourced from sustainable crops and applied with a non-toxic adherent in a cold-water process. The dyeing uses 65% less water than traditional methods.
Derived from Indigowoad. The leaves are chopped into a paste and fermented. Cultivated since the Stone Age, it is used for body paint, tattooing and fabric dying.
Yunnan, Southwest China
Almond
Sourced from Myrobalan, a tree that grows in mountainous regions in China and India. The tree produces plum-like, fleshy fruits with an outer peel rich in tannin.
Guizhou, Southwest China
True Indigo Light
Derived from Indigowoad. The leaves are chopped into a paste and fermented. Cultivated since the Stone Age, it is used for body paint, tattooing and fabric dying.
Anhui, Eastern China
Madder root
Sourced from dyer’s madder, or Rubia tinctorum, an herbaceous perennial related to coffee. The roots have been used since ancient times to dye leather, cotton, silk and wool.
China
Tannin
Sourced from gallnuts - secretions produced by trees such as oaks, when the larvae of a small insect punctures the tree’s branches. The galls are high in tannic acid.
