Dyeing with Woad - Fresh Leaf Extraction My 1st ever attempt
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Dyeing with Woad - Fresh Leaf Extraction My 1st ever attempt
It's time to cut my Woad and extract the blue pigment from the fresh leaves and dye some yarn! This is my first attempt at fresh leaf Indigo (using woad) extraction!
🍃The Method:
This technique is called Fresh Leaf Indigo Extraction. It can be done in many different ways and I have read numerous methods from many people in the know over the last 50 odd years.
But for my first attempt I decided to follow Helen Melvin's method. You can follow it by buying her fabulous ebook and having a go yourself if you are interested. It's called 'The Colour of the Sea and the Sky - The art of Indigo Dyeing.'
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🍃For the FULL SCIENCE on how the 'blue' appears and why....read from the master who knows it all.
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🍃I've never done this before, so I thought I'd make a little video to document my journey. I have dyed with woad before, but that's using processed woad. That's where someone has already EXTRACTED the pigment from the plant and made it into a powder, which I have then bought.
This time I've grown the woad and will be processing it myself and will dye it straight away and not process it into a powder.
From a plant growing in my garden to getting blue wool hopefully within 5 hours will be very exciting!
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Well I think it is great that there is a bit of blue colour showing. Will be interesting to see the result of your second attempt. 😊🤗👍
2nd attempt coming soon! Can't wait.
Well done Stuart............very encouraging......I shall look forward to the second attempt! Don’t be discouraged. Loved your mum’s garden......give my love to L/Melford. Sharon x
Thanks Sharon! Second attempt coming soon with next vlog! I'm lucky that mum has great garden and sheds to work in....it is smelly!! Long Melford is windy, and the leaves are everywhere now in hall street. I'm forever sweeping them out of the doorway haha. xx
Some result is better than none!
True...gotta start somewhere....like youtube!
Ahhh, Saturday morning, cup of coffee and another Woolpatch video on the TV. 😀This is the life... "The Good Life"? 😎
The Good Life for sure......and relax! 😁
Aw, I hope you're not too disappointed, Stuart. It was good fun watching. I feel like I'm on a similar journey with baking sourdough bread -- lots of hits and misses. Keep trying!
Yup - loads of hits and misses. But it's these that make us develop and grow. ;)
I'm glad it's good for something! It's an introduced noxious weed where I live in the Western USA. I've spent many hours digging it up.
Oh really? Yikes. It's a long ol root on them for sure. I've got a clay soil base here....it grows but it for sure slows it down! I could do with some of yours then haha.
Huh, only you Stuart could take such a disappointing result and still turn it into fascinating content (teacher background?), I now can't wait for the video of the second attempt. It is so important however to show the journey and how much skill, knowledge and experience went into these 'traditional crafts' as, in this age of instant gratification, it helps show the value of your results when you get them which I am sure you will. Great content (and editing) as usual. x
Hey Felicity! haha yes, it is the teacher in me! years or practice of trying to cheer up the kids when they don't get the result they were hoping for haha. It is amazing they were doing this way way back in the past. As for the whole 'instant' thing....one of the reasons why I left teaching. The emphasis on the process was being ignored or cut out. yet as you say that process is so precious and important especially when you finally get to the result. 2nd attempt coming soon. Thanks as always for your kind words. really helps. :) Stuart
great vid, entertining and informative
Oh boo! It looked so promising when it was frothy woad - but loved seeing your experiment, and your explanation of scientific terms! Really good luck for the second go!! Jen xx❤️❤️. Oh, and PS, your jumping from your garden to your Mum’s was a really neat trick!! 🤣🤣😘
Yeah it did....but I think the froth was too pale, and I should have carried on - jumped to the next stage too soon. I was trying to be like John Snow's son...can't remember his name. haha. as for me getting to my mums....trick? Don't you have the teleporting jumping ability then? 😂😁
I wondered if you were going to show the process when you showed the finished product in your last podcast. Interesting but what a lot of work!
Yea it is a lot of work isn't it, especially just for 100g. Then you can't be certain enough 'pigment' in the leaves. Not viable for non stop commercial yarn so I'll still have to buy processed woad. But I could grow enough to dye 10 or 20 hanks and dye 5 at a time maybe. Do a special collection of fresh lead woad maybe. :)
Don't give up. You can do it. Maybe increase the percentage of woad versus water?
I'm trying again for sure. More woad and more woad that has had more sun on it for sure.
Thanks for a fun video to watch. They used to use woad here in the Western US for dyeing. I learned from a place that does western pioneer reenactments and demonstrations that they used to add urine to their woad dyes. That is just for your information, not that I think you should try it and then put it a video. But anyway, good luck with your next attempt! Also, you should have introduced your mom!
Yup, reenactments and demonstrations use it a lot. We have a tudor hall up the road and reeanctors are always using it. Is it still a forbidden plant to grow in the US - it was classed as a bad weed. haha as for Urine...yes, I did see they used that in the 16th Century.....as you say, I'll skip that bit hahah. Stuart
Do you know that you only get darker colours if you do several dips, to overlay the layers of indigo. Same process with Japanese indigo. Don't give up after one dip only!
Thanks for you message Ginaveda. I do know now, it’s been a fascinating journey. I’m going to re dip a lot of my attempts. It’s brilliant! I’m addicted to it for sure! Stuart 👍🏼👍🏼
What is the deoxidizing chemical?
I think it was sodium dithionite as this was last year, I now use Spectralite (Thiourea dioxide) As it's stronger and easier to get hold of.
@@TheWoolpatch thanks for the timely response.
You’re very welcome. I’m about to cut this years Woad and have another attempt! If you have any questions just comment or email - happy to help
@@TheWoolpatch I look forward to it. I'm a curious amateur when it comes to natural dyes. I recently had success with red cabbage pH shifted to blue and then did a second dip in very new black walnut leaves to get a bright yellow. The combination gave me a mid value green that I'm pretty darn proud of.