Dye with avocado

Remove flesh and dirt from the avocado seed and shells. Then, chop both seed and shell to smaller pieces.

Mix the seed and shells with water and bring to a boil. Here, the sisters have used 1 litre of water, but you can adjust the amount to the size of the fabric you are dyeing. Add a teaspoon of salt and hold the temperature at boiling point for an hour. Then turn off the heat. If you are dyeing clothes, the sisters highly recommend adding some salt, vinegar or Alum which will help attach the dye to the fabric. This way, the fabric will better maintain the colour after wash in a washing machine. Dissolve into the water with seed and shells before adding the fabric.

Strain the chopped seed and shells from the dye water and pour it back in the pot or in a bowl.

Rinse the fabric with a little soap. Twist it and add it to the pot with the dye water. Stir to even the colour. Leave for 12 to 24 hours. The longer you leave the fabric in the water, the more saturated the colour will be.

Pick up the fabric and shortly soak it is a bowl of approximately 1 litre of water and 1 decilitre of vinegar.

Wash out any excess dye with water and hang to dry.