Natural Dye Color Chart. Clarabella. Natural Dye : Avocado | Ruth Singer. After about 15 years break, I’ve come back to experimenting with natural dyes. I am not sure what took me so long. I suppose my old studio wasn’t set up for wet work, and for many years I lived with other people who would not appreciate messy dyestuff in their kitchens. For the last few years, since I’ve had my own house, I’ve wanted to set up a dye playground but I’ve simply not got round to it, although I’ve been collecting materials and information for at least 3 years. I’ve got a stash of onion skins in the kitchen cupboard, I’ve had elderberries in the freezer since last autumn and I did have a stash of avocado skins and stones lying around too.
I had got stuck on the idea that I needed a huge pan and had failed to find one at a car boot sale. Reason prevailed… I use pretty tiny bits of fabric in my work these days. There’s no real need for huge pans. Criminal Quilts 2 I remembered the avocado skins. I rinsed the fabrics the following morning and dried them on the washing line. HookedandDyed | I experiment with natural dyes, and crochet the results. Page9. Dyeing Wool in Seventeenth-Century Germany | The Recipes Project. By Karin Leonhard (Research Scholar, MPIWG) and David Brafman (Curator for Rare Books, Getty Research Institute) The Getty Research Institute harbors an artisan’s recipe book for dyeing wool, ca. 1680, with supplementary papers that date from 1653-1762. The book contains 135 leaves, it is illustrated, and it is written in German. What is particularly interesting is its internal structure: this book is arranged alphabetically by the names of colors, and it contains the original samples of dyed wool.
“Each section is ornamented by large calligraphic initials and there are other watercolor devices and drawings throughout. The first part of the volume contains recipes for making grey, blue, yellow, orange, red, purple, brown and black, with dyed samples of raw wool affixed by means of red sealing wax. From the start of the book, a black raven features in an elaborate, though amateurish illustration. Most interesting are entries that demonstrate the change of color hue and saturation w. Shibori let's dye!-how to dye. 1. Preparing a natural fermentation indigo dye vat Mix all ingredients, natural indigo, madder root, wheat bran and soda ash, in rain water of the vat, and keep it 95°F to 110°F for one week to two weeks to ferment. During this time, all we need to do is stirring the solution once a day and just wait, watching the vat condition carefully. A couple of days later, we notice a bit smell of ammonia, this is a right sign that the fermentation process has just began properly.
In this state, very few amount of indigo has reduced, and it will dissolve in alkali water. This smell is getting stronger gradually day by day. Then another few days later, we recognize that cooper thin film is formed all over the vat surface. 2. It’s very important to remove all starch and grease from cotton as much as possible before dyeing to get fine result.
For reference, we use the power of Japanese sake’s bacteria to decompose starch into sugar and water(bacteria again!). 3. Choose a material and a design. 4. 5. Shibori let's dye!-how to dye. Growing Colour Tyfu Lliw. Long Ridge Farm.
Artists in Pastel: Pastel and woad. Application of Dyestuffs To Textiles, Paper, Leather and other Materials - publ. 1920. Spirit Cloth.