Natural Dyeing in the Viking Age | A Basic Overview
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- In leu of our in person events for the season we have had the pleasure to collaborate with Sons of Norway to create a digital event for the youth of their Camp Trollfjell in these times of social distancing. We have extended the videos to a length longer than our normal duration for this event, but felt that our followers here on social media may enjoy them also.
First up we have a video on some of the basics of natural dyeing, in reference to the viking age, along with some connections to the modern age. This video also goes a bit more in depth into the use of lichen and even cochineal/kermes then the typical focus of madder, woad and weld. We hope you enjoy this information and find it useful!
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I've found that unrolled cotton balls make good test subjects that you can make a small amount of a dye to test it out. Also one way to tell if there's a lot of iron in your tap water is if you regularly get a pink slimy film on your bathtub and sink that you have to scrub off. That pink film is a bacteria that consumes iron. So if you get it in your apartment building you know that there's at least a little iron in your water. I also recently experimented with heating my water in a kettle that looked like it was made of bronze, but could also be copper. Using this water to brew purple cabbage yarn made a lighter color with an unearthly glow to it. Not a literal glow, I mean the shade it developed. It was incredible. Also don't forget that besides urine you can get alkali from potash. Put your ashes out in a pot or jar before it rains, and then let the rainwater fill the jar and seep in. Oak produced high quality potash.
Great video, shame I found it so late. Channel hasn’t gotten another video in several years
Thank you for the great explanation of what they would have done in the Viking age. I look forward to learning more on the Viking Economy, and the goods they would produce for the market place.
Thank you for a special look into the past....very interesting and informative!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for a fascinating tutorial 🤗💐🌼💐
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I am so trying to get purple and fushia! I have not used natural things to dye fiber, except paper, it's going to be fun experimenting, I have 2 different lichen on trees in my yard so already collected some off the ground! Thank you
glad you enjoyed the video!
Well done, Kat!!! You have smoke passing your position...cooking up something fun? If you demonstrated more of the processes whilst describing it, it would have been more engaging.
Yes, we were both cooking a meal and dyeing wool with the lichen as I did the filming of this portion of the video. We hope to do more instructional videos in the future where we dive a bit deeper into individual dye materials and the process. I hope you enjoyed the information.
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