Dyepot PS #13 - Dip Dyeing Yarn to Break Dharma Acid Dye Colors
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- Do commercial acid dyes break? Let's test out Dharma Acid dyes in Delphinium Blue, Deep Purple, Sage Leaf, Purple Pop, Avocado, Twilight Gray, and Espresso Bean.
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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction
1% Stock solutions are 1 g of dye / 100 mL water
We will dye 100 g of yarn for each color.
I presoaked the yarn in tap water for 20 + min
[2:06] The dyebath: 8 cups of water + 1 T white vinegar (more vinegar is added after dip dyeing as needed)
1/2 cup of the 1% stock solution of each color immediately before dip dyeing
~118 mL, ~1.2% OWG for the colors we are starting with
[3:05] Delphinium Blue
[7:20] Deep Purple
[10:49] Sage Leaf
[13:55] Purple Pop*
I would not recommend using this much purple pop per 100 g again! Takes a long time to exhaust
[19:36] purple pop yarn mop! (Stroll finering weight yarn)
[24:40] Avocado
[28:28] Twilight Gray
[31:44] Espresso Bean
[35:15] Washing the yarn (Sample)
[26:19] Washing purple pop
[37: 35] The finished dry yarn and conclusions
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Bingeing on your videos l just want to be totally irrespinsible and not do any of things l need to do today/this week and just run to my laundry room and immerse myself in dyeing projects for days!!
You are so brilliant in instructing as you narrate the story of what you're doing. It makes all the info so accessible. Thank you so much!
This comment just made my whole day. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with me. My biggest goal when filming the videos is to make dyeing approachable and accessable. I know that I could shorten the tutorials but it is so fun to think and reflect and share that as I work.
Dharma Lichen breaks crazy. It goes silver and green, it’s wild.
OOOO thank you! I'm not sure if this is one that I bought on my recent order or not... but I'll have to check that one out.
I used to be crazy into knitting and crocheting then I had a baby and started working full time, so I didn’t have a lot of time but my sister and grandma got me wanting to knit again and I bought a few hand dyed yarn skeins today and I’m so excited to use them, and me and my sister wanna try dying yarn and your videos have been so helpful. Thank you
YAY! I'm so glad that I can help! With two young kids (preschool and K now) it was harder for me to find knitting time so the dyeing became a nice outlet for me.
They are all beautiful.
Wow! The yarns are beautiful!!
Thank you!
I love them all. My favorite is the 'purple pop" and getting the pretty pink one as a bonus. Great video!!! I haven't tried Dharma Acid Dyes yet, but I will be adding all of these colors to my future wish list. Thanks for sharing.
Purple pop is a LOT of fun. I used a lot less in couple of other projects and it works great. Twilight gray is AMAZING, too. :D
I don't think I talked about it in this video, but purple pop sort of works in the reverse of the way Wilton's violet does. The blues strike first and the pinks take longer. If you add Frozen to the mix (which also strikes fast) you can get even more purply shades.
Would LOVE to see how superwash wool would react to the same dyes just used!! And as always looove your "breaking dyes" videos!!
Thank you so much! I am definitely starting to play with these on superwash yarns. I was actually filming a new video trying one of the dyes on a bunch of different yarn types yesterday. ;)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials yaaaay!!! I can't wait to watch it!!
The colors are all gorgeous
Thank you!
My favorite videos are when you break color (the classic Violet being the best because I love blurple so much), and I'm so glad to see the potential in acid dyes! I'm really looking forward to your exploration of what conditions maximize the breaking with these. Maybe you could have some random number draw acid dye mixing like you've done with food coloring.
That might need to happen at some point! I still need to play more with breaking conditions to maximize separation since the rates are much more similar than with food coloring.
Was so happy when I saw avocado in there, finally bit the bullet today and got frozen, avocado and Moss green to dye three skiens of trekking for the scarf pattern you linked me to on revelry :))))
YAY! I LOVE LOVE frozen. It is definitely one of my favorites.
Did you get red spots with your Moss green?
such vicarious fun and beauty ... I love your adding new jargon to this industry, or at least new to me: "YARNMOP"!!!
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Love these!
Thank you!
I for sure got breaking using sage leaf from Dharma, I saw a yellow and a blue. I was low immersion dyeing an unspun merino braid using citric acid for my acid. It was very beautiful but not the effect I was looking for :). How would you go about preventing breaking in this situation?
love those colors, I really like purple and green together, would like to make something from all of them
Thank you!
Love the colors
Thank you so much!
I had a good chuckle when you reached for the purple pop!
Oh man. I had used it before and I knew that it would spread.... I knew that it was tricky.... but WOW at 1.2% DOS is it intense! I might try for 0.25% DOS or less next time. ;)
Those colours I mix at .8% to 100ml and it reduces the bleeding to almost nothing.
Thanks! I have another video coming out where I used a tiny amount of the Purple Pop and it did exhaust in the end.
Now I see that it's hard to break acid dyes! I always get that muddy color with purple..it's like it's not really purple! I wonder what the best purple dye is.. because that is my favorite of all.. Thanks Rebecca! Great video again.. I always learn from you.
Thank you! I have a video where I crudely swatched all of my purple dyes (it is a Dyepot PS but I'm blanking on the ##) so at least you can roughly compare them.
Avocado and deep purple were my faves.
I am pretty obsessed with deep purple as a color overall. I love it!
Love the greens
Thank you!
That purple and pink is fabulous!! I was wondering if you'd be willing to knit up a set of socks in the raw yarn first, then dip dye them with this purple. Oh my gosh, I think they'd be the best!!
Dip dyeing finished knit garments is absolutely on my list of things to do!
These are all so beautiful! I have done some ice dyeing with cotton fabric to achieve the breaking. I’ve thought about trying it with yarn but I’m not sure if it would work with wool.
I have ice dyeing plans in my future! :D I've done it on a sock blank so far but want to play more in the future.
I'm learning a lot here and obsessed, to say the least. Great videos, and I like your style. Tell me, Rebecca, I'm starting out here-- what would be the best colors of Jacquard or Dharma Acid dyes to start with? The ones with the most breaking? Thank you!
I think my recommendations of colors to start with would be less about breaking and more about color mixing. I'd get a primary red, blue, and yellow, primary cyan & magenta, Black and maybe brown to start with.
(A little bit of fluroescent fuschia + other colors often will break!)
Can I ask how you mixed the purple pop dye? I would really like to try the color. It is beautiful! Thank you for all that you do! Please stay safe! WOW!!! The pink turned out beautiful from just being a mop up yarn! I really like the avocado colors! Love the twilight gray! All of the dying was gorgeous!
The purple pop is a 1% stock solution (1 g dye / 100 mL water). i think I used 1/2 cup of the stock but you should check the video description to see the exact measurements I used.
I think it might be interesting to mix two colors that you know take different lengths of time to strike. One that you know strikes fast and one that you've seen take a while to clear. Then you can create your own mixes. That said, these are soooooo pretty! I really want to get some of the Sage Leaf and Twilight Grey!
This is something I LOVE LOVE doing! :D
@@ChemKnitsTutorials There's a spot on the Dharma website where they list the type(s) of acid dye in some of their mixes that aren't single ingredient. There were a couple that were leveling (take longer to strike) and pre-metalized (strike fast). 472 Blued Steel and 465 Lichen. Have you tried those yet? Otherwise mixing leveling and premetallized dyes should make experimenting with this technique super fun!
I really want to see twilight grey cold then heated. I've seen it swatched and it always throws me off bc it never looks grey right off when cold. Also kinda interested in playing with the breaking of it more. Such a gorgeous colorway!
OMG Twilight gray looks pink to me when cold and more gray/blue when hot! This is 100% on my list of things to explore soon.
A couple things - I get great breaking from Blued Steel and Lichen, as well as Moss Green. My technique is to not soak the fiber first. I raise Angora goats and dye a lot of locks. You don't even have to dip it to get the breaking if your fiber is dry. Thanks for sharing the colors you found that broke. I'm going back to my studio to play with those that I have on hand. Do you know of any Pro Chem or Jaquard that break?
You're 100% right - you don't have to dip to see breaking. I like dip dyeing to maximize the breaking that I might see. Sometimes on tonals it is so subtle (and stunning) that it is hard to say for sure. But a lot of these are subtle, too!
Tobacco leaf is a color is see different colors in speckling. I love this color. Thanks for doing this video. I have a few of the ones you dyed but I've been on the fence on twighlite grey n expresso bean. I thought during the dyeing for sure I'll purchase then seeing it dry I'm back on the fence. Its so hard to see true colors through my phone. Any advice on the colors now that you've done this? We talked once about it during a live stream how you thought they were purple. Thanks Rebecca!
Espresso bean definitely leans purple. However, more concentrated it does start to look brown. however for speckles and for lighter applications you will see purple. (I thought that the one end in this yarn looks almost brown, but overall it leans purple for me.)
Twilight gray is a big complicated for me. It leans blue or sometimes that teal/purple breaking. It isn't very gray, but maybe at higher concentrations it could feel more gray.
I relaly like both of the colors a lot. I have a lot more exploring to do with both of them.
Hi Rebecca! Do you have a video on how to mix up your Dharma Dyes? I noticed in this video they are not a powder, but already in a liquid state. I'm not sure how much water to add to how much powder for this. How much dye then do you add to 100 grams of yarn? Thanks!!
I do! This is the general technique that I use on mixing all of my stocks: th-cam.com/video/t8MFfTgeKic/w-d-xo.html
I am sure you have answered this before, when the bubbles come to the top, is it not boiling? Will the yarn not felt? I love the whole idea of breaking the color for a gradient but is it not felting it at the same time?
I aim for a temp that is just below a boil. I aim for bubbles and then reduce the temp, but sometimes things get a little hotter. Thankfully, boiling alone isn't enough for most yarn to felt. Some super lofty yarns with a lot of halo to the fibers might felt, but I've been super lucky so far. At this stage, the worst felting I ever get on yarn is from a project that requires significant washing and rinsing at the end. Agitation is more of an issue than heat. Heat on its own shouldn't cause felting if things are handled gingerly. I'm definitely more aggressive than I used to be since I have a better sense of what I can get away with. I do get nervous with new yarn bases, though.
If I think I've damaged the yarn at all I will always point it out in the conclusions.
Hello - Is there a better way to dye 50% Acrylic, 35% Polyamide & 15% Wool yarn? Do you have a video on this? TYIA
You could use acid dyes on this blend. Polyamide (nylon) and wool can both be dyed with commercial acid dyes, however the acrylic won't take up colors so you'd end up with something that is overall less saturated. You could try a dye that is directed towards synthetics (like Rit DyeMore Synthetic Dye).
Do food colouring stay in the wool when washed over time? Also is it possible to use food colouring in silk or cotton dyeing and what will make it stay colourfast or lightfast thanks
I find food coloring to be very wash fast. (I wash all yarn on cold typically, hand dyed or not. Hot water can make any type of acid dyes bleed a bit.) Food coloring isn't as lightfast as commercial dyes. But the kids and I wear winter accessories dyed with food coloring and the colors are still super vibran. I've seen fading when I leave something on a windowsill in direct sunlight for weeks at a time. However, some other people have seen fading on a faster timescale with direct sunlight.
Here I show some examples: th-cam.com/video/izhOyrUJ6Ys/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the shout out! I enjoyed your analysis st the er ndf of the video. And these colors are gorgeous! Are any of them available yet in Etsy? 😎
I really liked your analysis at the end. Really interesting factors at play. These colors are gorgeous. Are any of them available on Etsy yet? 😎
@@adalai7649 If you go to the Dharma web site you can buy them pretty cheap. I just got some last week.
A lot of these yarns are in the Etsy shop! ;) A few have sold but the purple pop (sock and worsted), Delphenium blue, avocado, & Sage are still available. I think the five are listed here: www.etsy.com/market/dyepot_ps?ref=l2 (Horay for tag use working in my favor!)
How long did it take to unwind those?! I love to untangle yarn. If that was a job I would apply!!
I'm not sure! I don't remember this one so it may not have been so bad.
I have a difficult time seeing that any of those colors broke. I would be interested in seeing a control set up, where a very dilute concentration of the dye is added to the yarn to see if the lightest shade on the dip dye is a different color than just a very dilute quantity of the original color. It would also be interesting to look at mixing the acid dyes to see if different colors absorb at different rates. Mix a pure red and blue and look to see how they absorb to a single skein of yarn.
There is no question that the purple pop breaks - this is a bit easier to see with less dye, though. Beyond the purple pop and Twilight gray, any breaking from this set that I used is really minimal. Nothing as dramatic as with food coloring.
It will be a bit harder to try mixing some primaries to see if they break because they're so many more dye molecules in acid dyes. Without an ingredients list, it is hard to know what is in each mixture. I will have an example of some colors that I mix together at a later date that do break. I picked that mixture because I knew one color struck fast and the other took a long time to absorb. :D Things also might behave differently on superwash yarns.
Using Wilton dyes tried in a pot with white vinegar and the in the microwave the wash out what am l doing wrong please
Hi Karen - are you using a protein based yarn? Wool, alpaca, silk, mohair, etc. Unfortunately you can't use food coloring to dye acrylic or cotton yarn.
Wow love the. Color have. A nice. Day
Thank you!
What colour can I substitute for the blue you used? In either in Dharma or Jacquard please and thank you. Love your videos.
The blue is Dharma Acid Dye Delphinium Blue. Maybe Jacquard Periwinkle would be close but I'm not 100% sure.
ChemKnits Tutorials thank you Rebecca
I think if you would have added a little more vinegar to begin with and then taken a little longer when you were doing the actual dip dyeing you'd have seen a much more dramatic effect and gotten more breaking. It was a fun video thought.
With food coloring, if I start with more vinegar then you don't see as much breaking since it increases all of the relative rates. Blue #1 needs more acid to bind, reds strike with little acid, so starting with small acid allows the things that strike quickly to bind while the other colors might need a bit more acid. I think that the relative rates of the commercial dyes are closer together. I will definitely explore this more, though!
Love color have nice day
Thank you, you too!
Has anyone tried this method with feathers. Does it work?
I haven't, but now this sounds like a fun experiment. Since feathers are protein based I would think you could dye them with acid dyes, but I'm not sure what precautions you need to take to not separate the strands or damage the feather.
Hi Rebecca. Do you have a tutorial on how to butterfly tie a larger skein of yarn? New subbie! Love your chanel. Thanks to you, I will soon be dying my 1st skein of yarn! Wish me luck...
I don't... but I should! I am very very bad about adding additional ties but I have some tips and tricks that keep the yarn from getting tangled. I just added this to my filming list.
I hit the bell when I subd so will def be watching for that one! 1st chunk of yarn is in the color bath as we speak! Super exciting! My hubby is even peeking over my shoulder...its cute!
Good luck!
Well, that didnt go over well. Back to the drawing board.
@@tinamccartney3778 on no! Feel free pm me via my Facebook page to chat about it.
You keep saying you don't want to go too fast or that you're going slow and I'm cringing because it looks like your really rushing everything and not leaving enough blank yarn to get broken colors a chance to show.
Breaking dyes are my absolute favorite videos that you do.
I cringe when I'm doing this sometimes, too. :D I have a much better feel with food coloring breaking than I do with some of these acid dyes. Since I have less of a sense of what the final color will be. I'm afraid to wait too long and miss the break and get just a pastel, or to go too fast and then not see the breaking at all.
I imagine it's pretty temperamental. It would be nice to see a breaking of an acid dye with the timing variable as the main part of the experiment. Like do the purple pop but see directly it behaves going quickly vs slowly....
These are such fun videos and i always wonder if the science works as well dying fabric instead of yarn.
I used delphinium blue on 100% alpaca, and the whole yarn was very redish - similar to what you got on the superwash ties.
Oh interesting! I am excited to play with all of these more.
I've found some acid dyes break at cold temperatures.
Oooooo!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Most often below about 40 deg F.
Purple Pop is clearly a beautiful trouble maker
For sure!
Dharma navy breaks when I steam- purple and brown.
Oooo I haven't seen it break yet. I'll have to try!
i think i think it would look way different if it was super wash wools.
Yes. It will absolutely look way more different!
It might strike faster
For sure. I've found some of the colors behave differently on superwash than non. I was working on a video about this yesterday.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials i cant wait to see this new video. You r doing a great job. I appreciate all the hard work that you put into your videos.
I’d say the grey made the yarn an amethyst geode kinda pattern it’s really cool 😍
OooO!
Love the colors
Thank you!