Natural Dye: Dyeing Green

In this video, I go over the steps I use to dye things green with natural plant dyes. http://www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights https://ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: ------------ General Dye Equipment: ------------ *NEVER MIX DYE EQUIPMENT WITH COOKING EQUIPMENT* Many of the plants and chemicals used in dyeing are TOXIC. If you use a utensil, pot, or other equipment for dyeing, DO NOT USE THAT ITEM TO MAKE FOOD. Dedicated pot for dyeing Source of heat. I use an induction burner. Digital scale Spoon Tongs Strainer Measuring cup or some other vessel to measure and dissolve dye/chemicals Dyeing Yellow: ------------ Soak materials in room temperature water before dyeing. Heat water over med/low heat 175 F/79.4 C. Dissolve in 8% dry materials' weight of Alum for mordanting. Add materials to mordant bath and cook for about an hour. Remove yarn from mordant bath. Cook dried marigolds in clear water for about an hour at med/low heat (175 F/79.4 C). Strain out marigolds, leaving dye water in the pot. Add materials to dye and cook for about an hour at med/low heat (175 F/79.4 C) Let materials cool. I usually let things sit overnight. Dyeing Blue: ------------ I use the following recipe from Dharma Trading Co for indigo dye using pre-reduced indigo crystals: https://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/pr... Soda ash and Thiourea Dioxide used in this recipe were also purchased from Dharma Trading Co. Additional equipment I recommend for indigo dyeing specifically: a plastic 5 gallon bucket a big stick for stirring a space outside for dyeing a thermometer to measure the temperature of the water Yarn/Materials Dyed: ------------ 5 100g bare Targhee wool skeins from Green Mountain Spinnery 5 100g previously dyed blue Targehee wool skeins from Green Mountain Spinnery https://www.spinnery.com/ Approximately 4 yards of a thin yellow cotton fabric I bought on ebay Approximately 25 g of white cotton yarn One 100 g BFL skein of yarn to use up the last of the yellow dye One scrap of cotton fabric to use up the last of some pink dye from a previous dye project ------------ Attributions: ------------ Title Card: ------------ Photo by Anton Atanasov https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscap... Logo designed and drawn by A.R. Gergler Video: ------------ Farming a Field of Yellow Flowers by Kresimir Divic https://www.pexels.com/video/farming-... Video by Katy Landers: https://www.pexels.com/video/aerial-v... Video by Teona Swift: https://www.pexels.com/video/thick-fo... Images: ------------ Shisha-Tom, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:In... Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b..., via Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:In... Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is... Frédéric Neupont au Muséum du Pastel de Toulouse-Labège, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pa... Background Music: ------------ Music: Celtic Ambiance by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9030-celtic... License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/ End Screen: ------------ Photo by Anton Atanasov https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscap...