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Chromatic Nature
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Learn about the magic of natural dyes! On this channel you can watch as I explore using various natural dyes and mordanting methods to create clothes, accessories, and more.
I take my experiments pretty seriously and put different methods and ingredients to the test. My videos aren't just me gushing over whatever color I get. No. I want to know how dyes handle sunlight and wear, and which mordants actually work best for each dye.
Chromatic Nature is my natural dye company, selling natural dye kits, natural dyeing supplies, and handmade naturally dyed organic fiber clothes and accessories. Eco-friendly packaging only.
Visit my website to shop www.chromaticnatureclothing.com/
I take my experiments pretty seriously and put different methods and ingredients to the test. My videos aren't just me gushing over whatever color I get. No. I want to know how dyes handle sunlight and wear, and which mordants actually work best for each dye.
Chromatic Nature is my natural dye company, selling natural dye kits, natural dyeing supplies, and handmade naturally dyed organic fiber clothes and accessories. Eco-friendly packaging only.
Visit my website to shop www.chromaticnatureclothing.com/
Dyeing with Madder Root and Logwood
In this video I show step-by-step how I mordanted and dyed a batch of cotton garments with Madder Root and Logwood natural dyes.
Chapters:
00:00 - What this is about
00:43 - What I'm dyeing and what I'm using
02:12 - Preparing the garments
03:07 - Mordanting with Tannin
06:19 - Mordanting with Aluminum Acetate
08:02 - Preparing the Madder Root dye
09:11 - Calcium Carbonate afterbath
11:03 - Dyeing with Madder Root
12:47 - Tying the garments into tie-dye bundles
13:39 - Dyeing with Logwood dye
16:58 - Untying the tie-dye bundles
17:36 - Finishing the garments
18:02 - The finished garments!
18:36 - Final thoughts
Dyeing Ingredients I used:
Sumach Gallnut Extract - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/sumach-gallnut-extract/
Aluminum Acetate - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/aluminum-acetate/
Calcium Carbonate - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/calcium-carbonate/
Madder Root - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/madder-root/
Logwood - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/logwood/
Buy the t-shirt and headbands I made - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/madder-logwood-oversize-crop-tee-large/
chromaticnatureclothing.com/product-category/headbands/?orderby=date
Music is by Borscht Porsche
My website - www.chromaticnatureclothing.com/
Chapters:
00:00 - What this is about
00:43 - What I'm dyeing and what I'm using
02:12 - Preparing the garments
03:07 - Mordanting with Tannin
06:19 - Mordanting with Aluminum Acetate
08:02 - Preparing the Madder Root dye
09:11 - Calcium Carbonate afterbath
11:03 - Dyeing with Madder Root
12:47 - Tying the garments into tie-dye bundles
13:39 - Dyeing with Logwood dye
16:58 - Untying the tie-dye bundles
17:36 - Finishing the garments
18:02 - The finished garments!
18:36 - Final thoughts
Dyeing Ingredients I used:
Sumach Gallnut Extract - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/sumach-gallnut-extract/
Aluminum Acetate - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/aluminum-acetate/
Calcium Carbonate - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/calcium-carbonate/
Madder Root - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/madder-root/
Logwood - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/logwood/
Buy the t-shirt and headbands I made - chromaticnatureclothing.com/product/madder-logwood-oversize-crop-tee-large/
chromaticnatureclothing.com/product-category/headbands/?orderby=date
Music is by Borscht Porsche
My website - www.chromaticnatureclothing.com/
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Thank you very much. Would you also try to revolutionise the screen printing industry with NON acrylic non synthetic [only natural ecological VEGANIC plant based dye gels] I am very glad l found your mini documentary, thanks again, Justice
Great video! Very informative. Thank you so much!😊
Did your website change, the links listed are coming up as invalid so I entered the website name and still is invalid.
I'm actually no longer operating the website, it's gone. Sorry about that. If you are looking to buy these types of ingredients I recommend botanicalcolors.com and dharmatrading.com
Very nice, I will try these natural dyes.
LOVED IT.
Found your 2-year-old video....awesome... so far, it belongs to the best category alongside one other.....simplified...detailed and learnt a lot, therefore 100% inspiring. I am hoping to experiment with products you sell and will post results . ❤❤
Thank you! I actually don't sell products anymore. But there are lots of other sellers to get these ingredients from, so I hope you still find them.
❤😊😮
Wow this girl run a proper experiement, I'm just 13:28 in but can already tell this is QUALITY content.
Hi do you have a new website address? The links in this video description cannot be accessed anymore. Thank you so much!
Sorry, unfortunately, my website is no more. I recommend botanicalcolors.com and dharmatrading.com
okay but weirdly??? the green kinda suits you, it looked really good!
So insightful, thank you I'll stick to alum for starters
Thank you for all of this detail about the differences just what I was looking for
Salt would have helped
Wow you are the fabric dye scientist!! Very helpful
Thank you for doing such an extremely thorough experiment! Really interesting results
It's so beautiful
Lovely it looks like.ita hard to saturate and would need different sections. The difference in colour s would be the porosity is different for each area. I'm looking for ash tones just like this for my much darker hair, I've had orange hair it doesn't look good.
So well explained! Thank you!!
That was a great experiment!
Thanks!❤ This is very helpful for our project. One question, after simmering the fabric with mordant, do I need the fabric to be dry first before putting the dye extract or put the dye extract while the cotton fabric is wet?
In my experience, the fabric can be wet and go straight from mordanting into the dye vat. No need to dry it in between.
Thank you so much for the demo
Awesome.very very beautiful
This is such good science
Lots of work! Wow! Thanks!
Instead of using water, I learned to use fresh brewed coffee and beet juice and that's how I have been doing since
very interesting!
What does that do?
I actually like all the variants of each colour for the type of crafts I do, even the sun faded ones, thank you so much for this tutorial, I am excited to try this dyeing experiment for my self as I am told the different types of water make a difference, as I live in an area of very hard water I will use highland spring water from Scotland as well as the tap water from the chalk hills area I live in.
it would be very interesting to see the difference between the colors you get with the two different types of water!
This was incredibly useful. Thank you for producing this video.
Hello, muchas gracias. Are these mordants tóxico for using them in our kitchen?? are they safe to use?? do you need special care after this process, or can you just wash the fabric as normal? Gracias
I am so impressed with your methodology!
15:10 a hopefully helpful idea for the soy smell issue: a salad spinner works too. I use mine single for hand-washed clothing items some times.
a salad spinner would be good to have for this!
Thank you. You are a trouper. I think this would be great for me that I have some white hair and brown black hair. I would like to see part 2. Although, 8 would consider adding other natural dyes. Next time perhaps section it. You look great, anyway
I actually don’t mind the cardboard colours especially as I would be using the cloth in craft projects. Thank you for your research.
I love the indigo on you! Way better than generic blonde! Gives me vibes of some mysterious forest fairy!
Great video
Great video and looking forward to making my first Vat
When you were putting the fabric into the soy milk you said it had been scoured & prewetted, can you please explain the scouring part.
I did enjoy your video very much. I’ve never seen this method. Thankyou.
you dint mentioned application time,how much hours u let the color stay
during the first application I left it on for only about 1 hour, maybe more like 1 and a half. The second application I left on for 2 hours.
Hello. I absolutely LOVE this video. I've just started dyeing and I dyed Logwood onto cotton. I use Aluminium acetate to mordant, but didn't use a tannin before the mordant. I'm concerned the logwood won't last long. Could I put the dyed cotton into a tannin bath, mordwith alum and dye again? Or is it too late for tannin at this point? Thank you x
Is there a reason (other than electricity use) not to use a dryer for the layers of soy milk?
Great experiment! Thanks for sharing.
Any tips for making the result darker
Hi! How long should you mordant cellulose fabric for if you're putting it in a pot on the stove top with potassium alum? Is 1hr long enough? Ive been seeing various info.. Thanks!
I actually really like it
So I bought the wrong thing when I was trying to dye with indigo, the first time the dye turned my clothes a grey color with a hint of blue. I found out that in needed more oxygen so I basically used to jars and mixed between the 2 jars to get it more oxygenated. I wonder if that would help it to be more blue
Such an interesting and informative experiment. You’ve given me loads of ideas thanks so much 😀Nigel
Awesome video! It’s great to see the side by side comparisons of the mordant methods and it’s lightfastness. Thanks so much for sharing! I was confused at first by the soda ash, vinegar, alum combination. But after looking in to it the soda ash and vinegar would create sodium acetate which when mixed with alum would make aluminum acetate, which is often preferred over alum. So it’s essentially a homemade aluminum acetate! I also wonder if perhaps the mold didn’t impact the soy milk results and they were accurate for that method. They were similar to the control colours which makes me think it just didn’t work great for those dyes. I haven’t done it myself, but I do agree with another commenter that I’ve seen it recommended that home made soy milk works better. And from what I understand, it works differently from other mordants in that it doesn’t actually bind to the fibre the same way. Instead you’re essentially trapping the soy milk on the fibre and building it up more and more with subsequent dips. So the more dips the more soy the more spots for dye to bind. I have heard it referenced as basically adding protein to a cellulose fibre as most dyes bond stronger to proteins than cellulose. A cool experiment could be to compare the use or a mordant on cotton with and without the addition of soy milk before dyeing, basically seeing if it gets a more saturated colour as wool or silk might. Your video has got me thinking!
Thank you! I'd love to see more experiments like this, but catering to silk.
Silk you really need acid dyes for. So vinegar or citric acid works well. You can use tannic acid as well but things like alkali mordant don't work well. I have mostly just used vinegar and I did use rhubarb leaves for oxalic acid but that didn't work well for Me if you use a very strong vinegar it can damage the silk too. A little makes it nice and shiney but a lot can make it go past that and weaken the fibres so I have just stuck with vinegar but you can use stronger acids with different silk ..I usually have mulberry silk which is shiney and delicate but stronger types would probably take more acidity.
Also what works for wool works well for silk and what works for cotton doesn't if that helps.
What a thorough and comprehensive video! So much thought and time went into this experiment and it is greatly appreciated. Thank you!