How to Naturally Dye with Acorns
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2022
- Acorns are an easy way to explore local foraging and making your own natural dyes. This is a fun sustainable way to create organic colour for your own palette range using just one dye pot. From yellows and chocolate browns, to a wide range of charcoal greys, acorns pack a surprisingly powerful punch of colour. With oak trees (aka Quercus robur or English, Common or European oak trees) growing in many urban and rural areas throughout the world, this easy seasonal dye source is a must to test out.
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and that brown is gorgeous!!!
Cant hear you over the music which is a same because what I can hear is really informative.
Oh no! Yeah, I am definitely still learning how to make the best sound. It does have subtitles, you can turn those on by hitting the “CC” button that should under and to the right of the video. Hopefully that helps! Thanks for saying something. Helps me better videos in future.
@@WildcraftDyeingi agree - the music level is too high. In fact, there is no need for the music at all while you are speaking.
Thanks for the video, very instructive☺
The background music could die a horrible death tho and I would be happy😜
It’s terrible! I wish I could change it… what a rookie mistake. My apologies.
@@WildcraftDyeingit’s just a matter of taste, I thought it was nice and gentle, great info thank you for sharing 🇬🇧
thank you
Any time! :)
Those are hanks, actually,, not skeins. SKeins are the more fixed, wound up in a spiral so you can pull from center or outside, like, say, how red heart yarn comes. That's a skein.
Yes! Good call. Those are hanks and should be called as such.
will this work for native acorns, too?
We found an area of blue while we were splitting firewood, can it be used as a dye? Would it retain its blue color?
Hey! Can you describe what you found…? Possibly though if it’s a blue fungal stain in the wood, there are people working on how to turn it into a dye but isn’t a dye yet. I’m hoping I’ll be able to answer more if I have some details…
@WildcraftDyeing the diameter of the blue is about 2 to 3 inches and it was 20 inches deep running with the grain in the center of the post oak. What reading so far is that it would be caused by metal piercing the tree so I don't think it's fungal. It's almost purple in color.
Great video. I could have done without the background music. It felt like a distraction. Thank you sharing your knowledge.
Hey - just wanted to thank you for the feedback and I completely agree with you about the background music. It's really loud and distracting. I tried to edit the video but unfortunately it was uploaded as part of the video so I can't edit it out over youtube. I appreciate that you took the time to note it - I wish I could change it. Feel free to always comment on stuff I could do better! :)
I have a question.... I have read several places to use 10% Alum because higher amounts cause the fiber to be rough. You mention 15%. Do you think that my pre-mordanted yarn stash will work with only 10% and why do you use more?
Great question! I just met master dyers on the weekend who only use 2% iron mordant whereas I’ve always used 6%. I definitely believe we should be using the absolute minimum amount of mordant possible to achieve the colours. So it could be that I am using too much. I also was introduced to cold mordanting processes when I was at the IFFS two weeks ago which allows you to mordant much larger amounts of yarn at one go in large tubs as opposed to heated pots on the stove. I think it’s time to do a video just exploring this topic and speak with some masters on their processes and see what quantitative experiments have been done. It could be 10% alum does the trick just fine (I suspect it will work just fine). I would move forward and dye with yarn at 10% WoF of alum. More research is required! I feel like dyeing truly takes a long time and an openness to new things!
@@WildcraftDyeing I always use 10% of my WOF for mordanting my fiber and it works fine.
@@ahmadhabib9553 10% for alum should still work - I wouldn't suggest for iron though given how hard it is for wool. There's some variability among dyers when it comes to alum but I'm sure 10% would give just as good results as 12%.
@@WildcraftDyeing Anywhere from 10% to 20% of alum should work. The best way to see what amount works best for us is that we experiment by trying different amounts of our mordant. There are not any hard and fast rules when it comes to natural dyeing.
Yes, in my wildlife biology work we always say there are no guarantees in the bush. Same with natural dyeing. I always say to try and try as much as you need for a project all at once because colour matching can be extremely difficult with all the variables.
Where do you buy your mordants from?
I get mine from Maiwa (maiwa.com/collections/all-mordants). I very much agree with their social responsibility activities with traditional weavers and dyers and supporting them.
@@WildcraftDyeing Thank you for your help.
Any time - let me know if you have more questions. :)
@@WildcraftDyeing Thank you.
Music is way way way too loud, but the video instruction is great. I would prefer zero music .
Totally agree - the music in this video is like green lantern to Ryan Reynolds. We both wish we could go back and do better. (It was embedded in the upload so can’t switch it off).
Sorry … you keep the acorns on the stove for three days …. Is the stove lit for three days?? That’s an awful lot of gas used …
Sorry no - that would also be super unsafe! The acorns are just soaking. I heated them up to low a simmer once a day for about an hour while I was in the kitchen making dinner. The acorns just need a good long soak to concentrate the dye.