I haven't tried woad, but some research shows that it has the same pigment as indigo. Here are some recent indigo dyeing videos th-cam.com/play/PLFvm3Bz7dhaVCZZIiUwi70DMifQwoK8fu.html
My friend and I used Rit to remove bleached spots on her black rayon skirt. The first try didn't cover all the spots. My dying kettle was too small. Plan two was painting the spots. It two painting sessions to get the job done. She thanks you for the dying education you taught me on your channel. 🎉❤
In person it is more of a bright true yellow vs feeling light a highlighter fluorescent yellow, but it is a lovely color. The yellow I've acheived from my yard are a lot muddier (likely do to other pigemnts in the extracts)
Lovely colours! I know it's hard for time, but to get max saturation and least bleeding, I'd try leaving the yarn to cool in the dye bath over night, squeezing/spinning out the water form the skein and letting it dry in the shade. Then letting it set for at least a day (or for however long after this!), THEN washing it gently in cold water with pH neutral soap. Natural dyeing is hard, slow, steady work haha! Looking forward to seeing more of your experiments, especially the resists and colour mixing! I was able to get blown out speckles by sprinkling flowers and extract powder on mordanted yarn, wrapping in scrap fabric then steaming in a pot for 30 mins xxx
That is so cool. My grandfather worked at the upjohn plant in Kalamazoo MI that made penicillin for WWII. He was head of the transportation department that had to get the finished product to the military.
I would love to see you work with fabric more. I would even be interested in sponsoring a video for fabric. It wouldn't need to be natural dyes. I like the bright hues from commercial dye a bit better.
Hello my dear! The little accident could lead to a very nice result if you dye the yellow strand in the remaining madder stock again and you get a beautiful apricot. I always add a spoonful of salt to the dye stock. This causes the color ions to be driven out of the brew into the wool and the color becomes much stronger. If you now re-dye 2-3 times and keep adding salt, you get very close to a strong red. Of course you would have to mordant again and again, but only with 10%. Wouldn't that be worth a video?
I wonder what black walnut rinds, blackberries, and hickory rinds would create if used as a dye. I saw a powder of marigolds in the listed natural dyes on etsy.
Maybe.... but I'm not optimistic that I could do it intentionally. Attempts for speckles with natural dyes haven't always worked out the best in the past - butnever say never!
Sorry about that, I meant to include it and forgot. It is now in the descirption under "ITEMS USED IN THIS VIDEO" (I'm commenting again because sometimes TH-cam doesn't like it when I add links in comments.)
I have a challenge. I was at a fiber show last weekend. I found some nice banana fiber yarn. I tried to dye it using acid dyes. It didn’t take. What type of dye would work?
I have tried blueberries, and I didn't use a mordant in the video th-cam.com/video/S7_XezDfO0c/w-d-xo.html The big issue here is that colors you get may not be as wash fast / light fast as other natural pigments. (Even though the unintentional stains can last a while!)
My friend and I used Rit to remove bleached spots on her black rayon skirt. The first try didn't cover all the spots. My dying kettle was too small. Plan two was painting the spots. It two painting sessions to get the job done. She thanks you for the dying education you taught me on your channel. 🎉❤
I'm so glad I could help! I never thought about overdyeing unintentional bleach spots on clothing before... I don't use a lot of bleach these days, btu I ruined some clothes back in my lab days.
Would love to see you dye with woad - it's such a pretty colour, and watching it turn from green to blue in the presence of air is magical.
I haven't tried woad, but some research shows that it has the same pigment as indigo. Here are some recent indigo dyeing videos th-cam.com/play/PLFvm3Bz7dhaVCZZIiUwi70DMifQwoK8fu.html
Danke dass du diese Art des Färbens gezeigt hast. 🧡💛🤎🌻
My friend and I used Rit to remove bleached spots on her black rayon skirt. The first try didn't cover all the spots. My dying kettle was too small. Plan two was painting the spots. It two painting sessions to get the job done. She thanks you for the dying education you taught me on your channel. 🎉❤
I'm glad I could hlep!
Thank you, Rebecca! I am experimenting with different natural dyes this summer and your videos are fascinating!
Glad you like them!
The finished yellow is close to neon. Which is amazing from a natural dye.
In person it is more of a bright true yellow vs feeling light a highlighter fluorescent yellow, but it is a lovely color. The yellow I've acheived from my yard are a lot muddier (likely do to other pigemnts in the extracts)
Lovely colours! I know it's hard for time, but to get max saturation and least bleeding, I'd try leaving the yarn to cool in the dye bath over night, squeezing/spinning out the water form the skein and letting it dry in the shade. Then letting it set for at least a day (or for however long after this!), THEN washing it gently in cold water with pH neutral soap. Natural dyeing is hard, slow, steady work haha!
Looking forward to seeing more of your experiments, especially the resists and colour mixing!
I was able to get blown out speckles by sprinkling flowers and extract powder on mordanted yarn, wrapping in scrap fabric then steaming in a pot for 30 mins xxx
Those colors turned out pretty
Wow, those go together so well. Doing a resist and layering them would be fantastic.
Right?!?!? I haven't done this yet but I"m super exctied
Beautiful colors!
Thank you!
You mentioned penicillin. The process of creating it in production size batches was determined at the Ag Lab here in Peoria, IL. Where I live.
That is so cool. My grandfather worked at the upjohn plant in Kalamazoo MI that made penicillin for WWII. He was head of the transportation department that had to get the finished product to the military.
Oh cool!!
I would love to see you work with fabric more. I would even be interested in sponsoring a video for fabric. It wouldn't need to be natural dyes. I like the bright hues from commercial dye a bit better.
I do have some 100% wool fabric in my stash somewhere. Or were you thinking cotton fabrics? Feel free to message me on Etsy and we can chat more.
Hello my dear!
The little accident could lead to a very nice result if you dye the yellow strand in the remaining madder stock again and you get a beautiful apricot.
I always add a spoonful of salt to the dye stock. This causes the color ions to be driven out of the brew into the wool and the color becomes much stronger. If you now re-dye 2-3 times and keep adding salt, you get very close to a strong red. Of course you would have to mordant again and again, but only with 10%.
Wouldn't that be worth a video?
I wonder what black walnut rinds, blackberries, and hickory rinds would create if used as a dye. I saw a powder of marigolds in the listed natural dyes on etsy.
I've been slowly collecting marigold petals to dye with someday. I did walnut extract once, it gave a super nice brown
Lovely colors! Since your yellow is already stained a little with the orange, why not go ahead and do your resist experiment on that skein?!
I 100% could have done that!
Since you got the spot with a clump of dye, do you think you could do speckles with dry powder?
Maybe.... but I'm not optimistic that I could do it intentionally. Attempts for speckles with natural dyes haven't always worked out the best in the past - butnever say never!
Where was the affiliate link for the natural dye kit?
Eek! Here it is. I'm also adding it to the description Earthues Botanical Dye Kit - shrsl.com/4meij *
Sorry about that, I meant to include it and forgot. It is now in the descirption under "ITEMS USED IN THIS VIDEO" (I'm commenting again because sometimes TH-cam doesn't like it when I add links in comments.)
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I have a challenge. I was at a fiber show last weekend. I found some nice banana fiber yarn. I tried to dye it using acid dyes. It didn’t take. What type of dye would work?
banana fiber is likely a cellulose fiber, so I would try fiber reactive dyes.
What about colors from blackberries, blue berries and GRASS. Try and get those stains out of clothing.
I have tried blueberries, and I didn't use a mordant in the video th-cam.com/video/S7_XezDfO0c/w-d-xo.html The big issue here is that colors you get may not be as wash fast / light fast as other natural pigments. (Even though the unintentional stains can last a while!)
My friend and I used Rit to remove bleached spots on her black rayon skirt. The first try didn't cover all the spots. My dying kettle was too small. Plan two was painting the spots. It two painting sessions to get the job done. She thanks you for the dying education you taught me on your channel. 🎉❤
I'm so glad I could help! I never thought about overdyeing unintentional bleach spots on clothing before... I don't use a lot of bleach these days, btu I ruined some clothes back in my lab days.