When making an indigo vat, you require three things: the indigo extract, an alkali, and a reducing agent.
Fructose is a great option as a reducing agent, as it is inexpensive, food safe and easy to use.
Combine with indigo and an alkali to create a vat and create blue!
A common recipe for creating a fructose vat uses a 1:2:3 ratio, or 1 part indigo : 2 parts calx : 3 parts fructose. For example for 50g indigo, you need 100g calx and 150g fructose.
Bulk dyes such as these ones do not come with instructions - if you are new to indigo dyeing, you may want to begin with our Indigo Kit, which has the pre-measured quantities of each ingredient that you need, as well as comprehensive instructions which lead you through creating and dyeing with your first vat.
A high-quality product, excellent customer service.
This was my first attempt at an indigo die, and I won’t say that it was a wild success, but the dye itself is excellent
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Ohmygodtea
Great fun kit! I wanted to try the Fructose way for long but somehow failed to find fructose in store so I thought why not this kit since I wanted to try the clay resist as well. Great thing I did! Both kits where really great and worked perfect. And for the smell of it: I will switch to fructose now! It is a much more pleasant smell!
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Diane
Love this vendor
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Diana G.
Useful size!
It was great to be able to buy the components of the Indigo kit in larger quantities to continue my experimenting with the dyeing process.
