Where to source fabric for dying is actually not so easy. For natural dying, you need 100% natural fiber fabric and sometimes it is not so easy to find fabric that is not mixed. And, even it is 100% cotton, not all the fabric takes the color good. One needs to do test dye and find fabric that takes the color good. Also, price is a bit of an issue. Sometimes fabric shops in a city sells 100% cotton fabric over 10 Euro/m… which starts to make the dye project quite expensive.
After few try and error, testing cotton fabric from few different shops. I found fabric from this seller at the Maybachufermarkt quit nice. Maybachufermarkt is a street market that sells vegetables and textiles and it used to be very cheap (I must say it became touristic the last years and not anymore very cheap). This cotton fabric seller, Naturstoff Lindemann has been there since I first started to go to this market over 10 years ago. He always sells the same undyed cotton fabric, woven in Germany and the price is quite good. I tested 2 of his fabric, very thin muslin and plain weave basic fabric (thinnest he had). Both took the color really well. One need to do a very good scouring before dying, and it is a bit of a work.. but for the price and the performance, it is a very good fabric.
I started to keep some notes on the fabric + indigo dye test. I also tested few fabric from Hüco stoffe, a big textile shop in Berlin. Some of their cotton fabric was also nice, but I experienced it was often discontinued in their stock, and I felt it is a bit unreliable to use their fabric.
