I've been getting really into natural dyeing for the last 6 months or so and was able to get a nice medium blue with green undertones using Buckthorn berry skins at a 1:1 WOF in an acidic bath (4-5pH). You can get more of a sky blue with exhaust baths or smaller ratio. It is truly a labor of love though because you have to squeeze out all of the insides of the berries, give the skins a quick rinse, then weigh and do a stovetop extraction. It's a fun color but is probably not a color I would ever do for a sweater quantity just because of the labor involved. The stuff you squeeze out from the berries makes a really nice and bright green apple green so that's worth keeping and using too.
Question… or maybe just a thought… regarding solar dying (jar, in sun). I understand that the heat from the sun will pull out the colors. Looking at Solar vs Stovetop (again, heat to pull color out). And if sunlight fades the finished colors, then that’s why the Solar is lighter in color (vs Stovetop)??? So logic (???) says higher heat temperature = brighter/deeper color/s. Chemistry wasn’t my thing, and I’m just more curious than expecting an answer here. Really surprising the various purples! Perhaps (chemistry…) at different times of year the berries produce different colors? Or … I’ve never seen these berries before, or never noticed them. Wonder what color cattails, various leaves after they’ve dropped, … see?? you have me thinking!!! Looking forward to projects you make w all the pretty colors! Thanks for the interesting show & tell!!
The temperature drastically affects the colors you get..mind you I don't know all the science there but even on the stop top, depending on how hot and how fast you get to the temperature produces different colors too! It's all very fascinating!
Oh how I loved this video! I play with natural dyeing too 😊 Those Pokeberry skeins are amazing, love your rainbow advent! thanks for the inspiration 💓
Hope you get up to some dyeing too! Pokeberry is so fun! My last podcast episode (68) has a peek at how the rainbow is knitting up- it's AMAZING
@@fiberandfox I am going to look it up and see if it is found in my area of Ontario. I will go check out the video, I am way behind in my watchings!
I've been getting really into natural dyeing for the last 6 months or so and was able to get a nice medium blue with green undertones using Buckthorn berry skins at a 1:1 WOF in an acidic bath (4-5pH). You can get more of a sky blue with exhaust baths or smaller ratio. It is truly a labor of love though because you have to squeeze out all of the insides of the berries, give the skins a quick rinse, then weigh and do a stovetop extraction. It's a fun color but is probably not a color I would ever do for a sweater quantity just because of the labor involved. The stuff you squeeze out from the berries makes a really nice and bright green apple green so that's worth keeping and using too.
Fascinating!!!
Question… or maybe just a thought… regarding solar dying (jar, in sun). I understand that the heat from the sun will pull out the colors. Looking at Solar vs Stovetop (again, heat to pull color out). And if sunlight fades the finished colors, then that’s why the Solar is lighter in color (vs Stovetop)???
So logic (???) says higher heat temperature = brighter/deeper color/s. Chemistry wasn’t my thing, and I’m just more curious than expecting an answer here.
Really surprising the various purples! Perhaps (chemistry…) at different times of year the berries produce different colors? Or …
I’ve never seen these berries before, or never noticed them.
Wonder what color cattails, various leaves after they’ve dropped, … see?? you have me thinking!!!
Looking forward to projects you make w all the pretty colors!
Thanks for the interesting show & tell!!
The temperature drastically affects the colors you get..mind you I don't know all the science there but even on the stop top, depending on how hot and how fast you get to the temperature produces different colors too! It's all very fascinating!
And oooh cattails might be fun to play with. They have SO MANY uses but I've not seen anyone dye with them.
It's the Sega themed color way names for me 😂
Right?