#dyeing with plants

[onejellyfishplease]

I wanted to do something for mermay, so here are my designs for some merturtles!

Leo is a Leafy seadragon,

Donnie is a Vampire squid

Mikey is a Epaulette shark

And Raph is a Scorpionfish!

Also heres a bonus drawing of a young April holding her little aquatic friends (dont worry they can breathe air just fine)

[comfortabletextiles]

The logwood came yesterday, I pured boiling water over it (20g). Let that soak for 24 hours (approximately) and boiled it for 3 hours.

Look at the richness and color!!!!

This is supposed to dye 100g of wool lavender, I'll report back tomorrow!

[grassyeggroll]

They make me ill /pos

[vulgarirex]

-Under the sun-

Plant dyed cotton wall hanging.

Alder, Avocado, Red onion. Oakmoss

Iron vitriol, Ammonia

[embers-archive]

Been sketching out ideas for piglin everyday wear outfits :]

[emaadsidiki]

World of Reptiles at Bronx Zoo 🐍🦎🌵🐢🐸

[tellioari]

Amber dye's associated items - Amber, Shimmering Savannabuds, and Pineapples!

Amber is a mineral you can find fairly commonly via Archeology. It can be used to craft some decoration blocks, and can be turned directly into Amber dye. When mixed with Blaze Powder, it becomes an intensely bright, viscous semifluid, known as Ember. You can attach it to a normal arrow and load it up into a crossbow - allowing you to shoot the mixture onto any surface, creating a bright light source in places you wouldn't be able to reach normally.

Shimmering Savannabuds are a new Sniffer plant! The Sniffer will dig up its seeds occasionally, and the fully grown plant can be turned directly into Amber dye.

Pineapples are a new plant that can only be found on islands. They grow similarly to melons and pumpkins, as once they are fully grown they do not need to be replanted and grow full Pineapple blocks. The fruit can be harvested, leaving behind the top of the pineapple - a source of the Amber dye - but also can be placed on dirt/grass to get just the top of the pineapple as a plant, or when planted on farmland, can begin to grow another pineapple. You can also use the flesh to make a kebab or a pineapple tart! Here's a picture of the pineapple model -

Big thanks to enri on our discord server for some of these textures and ideas!

[milkweedman]

Tried a bit of dyeing. The buckthorn berries out front are a lot harder to get than last year, but luckily they're a pretty potent dyestuff, and a handful or two is enough to dye an armful or so of wool.

Last year i got a beautiful golden green.

This year... at first, kind of blueish purple ? I ended up doing a quick test to see how it feels about being alkali or acidic. The acidic one basically just turned white again, which is kind of hihilarious. The alkali one though turned a bit green. In my test I didn't add any extra dye broth, just fresh water and lemon juice/baking soda.

Ive gotten better results adding a bunch of dye liquid into the alkali pot though, so I tried it here. We'll see the results. This id definitely a more blue green than yellow green like my last one.

Ive read that you get bluer dye the earlier the berries are harvested, which checks out here. Last year it was late summer and I picked dried berries from the ground. This year, they have just started ripening in earnest and are not dried.

Anyway, did not weigh anything of course but it was maybe 2 double handfuls of fresh early berries and an armful of wool mordanted in alum. First I cooked the berries on low, then mashed them, cooked a little longer on low (maybe 3 hours total), added the mordanted wool, cooked for another 3 or so hours. Then added to alkali bath with lots of extra dye broth.

With the exhaust, which is just as strong looking, I added another armful of wool, this time unmordanted, with a glug or so of copper mordant. Partway thru pouring I realized, ah, the copper mordant is suspended in vinegar so this will be acidic so I will probably get no color.

Curious if that will be true. If it takes on no color before I go to bed I will probably add a lot of baking soda and see what that does. But I'm hoping copper mordant = even stronger green.

I also read that if you can remove the buckthorn skins you can get blue.... now that would be a treat. It sounds labor intensive but I want to try it later if I can. Ive never gotten blue with foraged materials before.

Wool I'm using is clun forest x shetland.

Few other things: I've noticed recently that berries seem to produce much better results if you can cook them on low for only a short while. 3 hours counts as short in the world of natural dyeing; I've had dyepots on for 48 hours pretty regularly. Onion skins for example do best if you can get every last scrap of color from the skins, which can take several days. Berries, though...not so much. I think this could explain my pokeberry issues. I hope i can try with them again.

[archaeology-findings]

Adventures in Plant Dyeing: Part 9 - St John's Wort

This year I decided to grow St John's Wort (hypericum perforatum) as a dyeplant in my garden. The plants didn't start flowering until very late July and as I was away during August, I didn't get to pick many flowers before they stopped flowering after the heatwave we had. Thankfully, I still had enough to hopefully dye a couple of skeins.

According to several sources including Jenny Dean's books (although, frustratingly, not the book I have), St John's wort is capable of producing both reds and yellows, depending on the mordant used. Jenny Dean has described a 'four skein' dyeing process, in which un-mordanted and mordanted yarns are added to the dye bath alternately. Since I couldn't access her instructions myself, only other blog posts showing their results, I knew it probably wouldn't turn out amazing, but I wanted to try anyway.

I mordanted one skein with alum and left the other un-mordanted.

To prepare the dye liquor, I added the flowers to water in a metal dye pot and heated them gently for a couple of hours until the water turned dark red. Then I strained out the flowers and added my first skein of yarn, the mordanted one.

The mordanted yarn is supposed to turn out yellow, however mine took up the red colour in some places and not others. This could be down to how I mordanted the yarn - maybe I didn't mordant it using enough alum, or didn't stir it well enough. It ended up a sort of mustard with pink splotches.

The un-mordanted yarn, which was supposed to take up the red colour, instead turned out a very pale acid yellow. I suppose the little red there had been had all been absorbed by the first skein.

I wasn't happy with either of these colours as I already have some pale yellow yarn from my attempts at dyeing with tansy, and I don't like to weave with unevenly-dyed yarn. Since I'd already dedicated most of my day to dyeing, I decided to overdye them and a couple of other skeins with some madder I had.

[invoke-parlay]

Selfie with my big boi sunflower. This one has about 30 flower heads on it and none have bloomed yet except the top one. It’s going to be quite a spectacle once they do 🌻

August 31, 2024

[salad2022]

◇ no namе

Сotton fabric & bleach $ fabric paint & wax А3 (tie-dye)

[comfortabletextiles]

Some more plant dye experiments!

Trying the technique for acid dye variegated yarn with plant dye!

[vrronica-sawyer]

@re-l Legally had to give her a domina

[siriscrafts]

How to ecoprint a t-shirt!

Take the cloth you want to dye – natural fibers like cotton, linen, wool and silk work best, but also polyamide! It it's new, it's good to wash it first to get rid of any surface treatments on the cloth.

Then you'll need mordant for your fabric: alum and tannins for cellulose fibers, or just alum for protein fibers. Mordanting will help the print stick to the fabric and stay vibrant! To pre-mordant, simply dissolve the mordant into hot water and dip your cloth in it. To calculate how much mordant you need, simply weigh your dry cloth and divide by ten.

After mordanting, you can let your cloth dry or simply wring it and continue to the next step. Using wet cloth will result in a more watercolour-like print, as the dyes spread a bit. For crisper prints, it's better to use dry cloth.

Next you'll need plant stuff! Most green stuff will give yellowish hues, but there are some plants that are special dye plants. Do your research or experiment! (I used dyers chamomille, st. john's wort and some purpleish plants that I'm hoping will give red.) Some kitchen scraps like onion skins, and some mushrooms (eg. surprise webcap) are also commonly used! You can use fresh or dried plants. Arrange them on your cloth in whatever pattern you like! I'm folding my shirt in half to get a mirrored print, so I placed some flowers facing up and some facing down, but generally you'll want to place the flower face down and leaves face up!

Then it's time for wrapping up your cloth! You'll need another fabric or plastic to cover the cloth and something solid to wrap your fabric around, like a stick, some rulers or a piece of pipe. A rolling pin can be helpful in getting the plants flat against the fabric before wrapping. I used a big glass jar, like so!

Place the other fabric or plastic on top of your cloth and roll tightly! Tie the roll with some scrap yarn so it stays tight and finally wrap it in a towel. If you want a background colour, you can use a transfer cloth that's dipped in dye in place of the plastic or other fabric.

Next this roll will be steamed to get the colours from the plants into the cloth. A big kettle and small flower pot upside down work well, if you don't want to sacrifice a juicer. I used a bucket, a styrofoam box and an elecric kettle to save energy. Let it steam for 1,5 hours. If your cloth and plants were dried, it will take longer.

Once it's steamed, let it cool completely. Then it's time for the reveal! Dry and iron, wear and hand-wash.

I'll post the finished shirt once it's ready!

[artpigeons]

Alright, finally I have all the stuff I need to plant-dye these curtains, and I figure I'd post this in case someone's curious about the process.

I'll tag posts about this as "plant dye thread" in case you wanna blacklist :)

Step 1: Washed my fabric to make sure there's no residues on that might interfere with the dye process. Especially important if it's brand new fabric. (I'm also chucking in some plain white and unbleached cotton fabric to keep around for test-dyes)

[slinkyslugs]

Lots of fun pictures!

This was the tallest sunflower this year (I think it sort of looks like a solar eclipse in the pic) and the seeds will make a good dye.

Made some yummy food too! Stew with friends and birthday apple pie in a ceramic dish my grandmother made. (She's the one who taught me to be a potter. Isn't it a beautiful dish?)

We also caught the culprit in the case of the missing eggs: Quiche the rat snake! It was relocated about a half mile, hopefully far enough it doesn't come back...

Dog pics for tax 🐕 him napping and also sniffing a gigantic radish from our garden.

Solid late summer vibes 🌞🌻🍲🥧🧙‍♂️🐍