I also love tha fact that you have just used the 3 primary colours of yellow, red and blue to create all those awesome shades, it is simple but super effective
I am so impressed with you and your process. As a science teacher in Iowa, I constantly have conversations with students about how the arts and science have such a strong connection. Your podcast exemplifies that perfectly. Please keep making these wonderful videos! Thank you so very much!
Thank you Maria! You are so right, I also think that science and arts are going hand in hand. They are just different ways of humans brains interacting with and analyzing nature 😊 love that you are passing this on to your students!
Hi Anna, I really enjoy the natural dyeing segments. It is fun to learn the chemistry behind an ancient craft. I try to extract color from just about any organic material! If it's a fail, it can always be over dyed. Loved the FOs and new projects. I want to knit your Sun Ray Shawl, it is stunning. XX.
I agree that you have the perfect color of yellow. It reminds me of the fields of sunflowers that grow here in North Carolina. Wonderful to hear that you will be selling your natural dyed yarns!
Oh yes, it absolutely is a sunflower yellow! 🌻 🌻🌻 my friend also pointed out that it looks like gamboge, the dye that is used by some buddhist monks to dye their clothes!
Oh my gosh, Anna, your hand dyed yarns are so great. I don't even usually like pooling, but I'm obsessed with your Glowstone socks, and I'm living for Peppermint Mouse. So gorgeous. Also, thank you for your explanation of how indigo works. It was so fascinating to me. And your speckled indigo yarn is so cool.
Thank you so much Célèste! Until recently I also didn't really like pooling ;) But now I just love to knit crazy pooling vanilla socks! Still a pooling garment or shawl would be a bit too much also for me!
Your indigo dyed yarns are beautiful. Love the experiments as well. Green is also my favourite colour. Thanks for all the information on dyeing, soon, after the holidays I'll do my own dyeing with indigo ;-)
Hi Jo! That is super exciting to hear! I would love to see your indigo dyeing results - we have a thread in our ravelry group to share what is happening in our dye pots :)
What an awesome episode, again! Your indigo dyes are absolutely gorgeous! I loooove the effects you create and all the vibrations it gives the yarn. I am a total fan
Hello Anna - I recently came across your podcast . I have so enjoyed watching your past episodes . Your explanations into the chemistry of dyeing are fascinating and you have made me want to have a go myself . I have always loved green -all shades . I even have an emerald engagement ring :-) I loved the effect of onion skins and idego - beautiful . Your choice of colours are inspiring . Thank you so much .
Another great podcast, thank you sooo much. Thanks for the natural dyeing info, very interesting and informative. Keep up the good work and keep posting!
Your explanation of indigo dyeing chemistry was fascinating! I'm not sure I understood it all🙈 ... but it was very interesting!! Love your podcast and your natural dyed yarns! ❤️
Ohh thank you so much! Happy to be your company while you are knitting. Which cardigan are you making? If you like, feel free to share a picture in my ravelry group (I am always super curious!). All the best!
Thanks for sharing how you ply your singles with the spindle! I was looking for a simple way that doesn't require any additional tool to purchase, so your technique sounds like exactly what I need.
You are welcome 😊 I love plying from a center pull ball, even at the spinning wheel. It's just so great to have a continuous plied yarn in the end and no leftover singles. Happy to hear that this demonstration helped you!
i also love green :) my family teases me because i say i'm going to buy a different color garment but end up walking out the store with something greenish. will you sell your yarns again. i haven't seen any in the etsy store. i'd love to see a DK weight so i can make a light sweater. Love your podcasts Im learning lots and getting exposed to lots of new ideas and vendors. Keep them coming!
Found your channel looking for inexpensive and natural ways to dye the copious yards of muslin I have, because I don't want to toss it when I'm done with it. I want to be able to wear my mockups if they're salvageable, but don't want half my wardrobe to be easily stained from the white and off-white shades of muslin. Lol Planning on my first project being a-line floor length skirt with some kind of tie closure, so that I can still wear it comfortably as my waistline fluctuates.
I love your yarn and the podcast. Hope there is some left next weekend. I would love to try the organic merino. I will soon be learning how to spin with a drop spindle. I can't wait
Thank you so much Karol! The yarn is up in the shop right now! But it seems to be going out fast 😅 have a lot of fun learning how to spin, it's an amazing experience!
This was such a nice podcast! Very informative and nicely recorded :D I really loved the natural dyeing part and all your scientific explanation about the use of indigo and how it works. So nice to be able to learn such things thanks to you! I'm now off watching your other videos :3 Keep up the great work! :) - Ania
Hi Anna . Thank you again for sharing educational facts (for me at least). Wow that indigo is so different to color! It has a magic touch with turning the yellow into blue. Do I see there plastic at the floor to protect? What about the walls? Getting a bit speccled as well? *Ü* Your speccled indigo yarn looks gorcious. I love the onioncoloured ones as well: I will start saving so I can try that myself one day. I just started spinning: last week I bought myself a Bogway handspinner and are now experimenting with woolroving and fleece. Your way of plying is an eye-opener to me: now I will have two threads of the same length! Your Morning Mist Top is going to be gorcious and your finished shawl; lovely. When you show pictures you use a beautiful wooden tray. Is that craftwork also? Again thank you for sharing and see you again! Marjan
Hi Marjan 🤗 thank you for your lovely comment! Yes I cover the floor around the pot with this plastic foil you can get in the shops where they sell painting supplies (for painting walls), and I reuse it many times 😊 the wall is usually fine, gravity is my friend and makes the liquid drop on the floor, and I don't splash around so much 😜 Yes isn't a plying ball great? For a random twoply yarn I always ply from a ball, it's just nice to have a continuous plied yarn and no leftovers. I saw your bogway spinner on instagram, it looks so interesting!! Hope you have a lot of fun spinning with it. The wooden tray is not handmade by me, but i have just discovered it as a pretty background for knitting photography 😊 all the best, Anna
Anna what a great episode! I was just thinking about you and wondering what creative wonders you are making and when I woke up - great video about your rainbow yarns! Love all the colours that you produced with indigo, onion, birch and cochineal! I would love to get my hands dirty and try to dye my own but so far doesn't seem possible, here where I am. So am looking forward to your etsy shop ;) i love your FOs as well, gorgeous socks and a beautiful shawl!! Great job! Already looking forward to the next video :) best of luck! :*
Hey Marina! Oh it would be so much fun to have you visiting and dyeing yarn together! I'm sure you would come up with the most amazing combinations. Thank you for your sweet comment and I hope you have a beautiful day!
FYI skip to 25:20 for natural dye info. The information is good and presented well. Although why it takes her soooo long to get to the information I don't know. I would have split this into two videos one about knitting projects and one about dyeing.
Hi Lucy, thanks for the comment. You are right. I have to say that this channel started out as a podcast format where I put several segments into an episode... I haven't really expected that people who are not following me because of the knitting stuff would watch my videos. 😅 In the meantime I started making separate videos in a fiber science series, which are shorter and contain just one topic. And I plan also to make one for the indigo dyeing process! Hope you have fun with your natural dyeing experiments.
dunkelgrün thanks I am having fun! As I said your video is really well paced and presented which is actually unusual in DIY videos. Can't wait to see more stuff from you!
Hi Anna, You can also use the Japanese Indigo and The English Woad for an excellent true blue. Oh and I find spinach and or nettles make a lovely green
Hi Maja, of course you're absolutely right about japanese indigo and woad. But interestingly the chemical compound in all the plants which produce a true blue is the same... indigo 💙😉 I have to try spinach and nettles yet to dye green - is it lightfast? Thank you for your inspiring comment!
Thank you Magdalena!! I feel the same way when it comes to plying - this time I just thought I do it for the challenge and ply this little bit on the spindle - but shall I be honest? The plying ball and the spindle are still in the same state as they were two weeks ago when I recorded this episode 😂
Thank you Magdalena!! I feel the same way when it comes to plying - this time I just thought I do it for the challenge and ply this little bit on the spindle - but shall I be honest? The plying ball and the spindle are still in the same state as they were two weeks ago when I recorded this episode 😂
Hi Joyce! So happy to hear that you like it. Yes at the moment I have only one, but I could make more 😊 if you are interested, feel free to message me on ravelry!
Hi Hallie! That is a good question. The compound alum itself doesn't contain iron but as with many minerals and salts there are usually some impurities and trace elements. Iron does influence the color. But I am not sure how much iron is / can be present in natural alum. Anyways, I usually buy alum kn the pharmacy, they sell it for deodorants or as an after shaving thing (stops bleeding). And this is not specifically labeled as iron free. I guess there might be traces of iron in it, because in our earths crust iron is everywhere...
Thank you Jay! Oh yes it really is a cadmium yellow 😊 but as a chemist that has a slightly too toxic sound to me for something I am wearing on my skin... hehehe 😉
Hi Ron, I am popping in some information about natural dyes here and there in my podcast. In episode 2 I talked a bit about the chemistry behind the process. I haven't done any tutorials... my dyeing space is unfortunately too small (and my camera gear too big) to do that. I am not sure which black material you meant?
Ok Ron, I think I got which black material you mean :) the skein on the very right side of the rainbow? It's actually a dark purple. I dyed it with logwood and the details on how I dyed it are in episode 3 or 4 (the one with purple yarn and spring flowers in the title picture).
Hi Sam! The dyeing principle with indigo works the same for all kinds of materials. You need to create a vat with a basic pH and reducing agent. Then it depends which material your stretch fabric is made of - it works best with natural fibers. So a cotton jersey would take the color perfectly! Synthetic fibers might work not as well, but also those should take up at least a bit of color. You will have to experiment! Have fun :)
I have rewatched this podcast and I wonder... have you tried to dyeing using onion skins and no mordant at all? I have been reading for a while and it seems you can get rather nice results, but no idea how the colour will turn out as the explanations are not very accurate (kind of: "use as many onion skins as you can to get better results" is not my idea of accurate)
Hi Azucena, no I haven't tried this! I have a lot of alum mordant at home and so I always use it. What you can do to save time is add a table spoon of alum (per 100g skein) directly to the dyebath instead of premordanting. In my experience you can use between 10-100g of onion skeins per 100g wool depending on if you want to have yellow or orange. The dye content in the skins can also vary greatly, that's why it's hard to give a precise amount... so if you want to have yellow, I would start with a small amount, and you can always add more!
Thanks! You caught me in the middle of my first ever trial (no mordant). As my first intention is to see how it works with the minimum resources to show it to my students (we don't have access to chemicals... yeah :/ ), so far seems good :got an orange-redish colour and it is happily drying now :D
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I also love tha fact that you have just used the 3 primary colours of yellow, red and blue to create all those awesome shades, it is simple but super effective
It’s one of my favorite parts of playing with colors... to combine the primaries 😊 the possibilities are endless!
Watching this again as I have also started natural dyeing so it means a lot more to me! Your colours are just awesome!
This is one and a half years late, but your podcast make me want to take up dyeing! I love chemistry and so enjoy all these science stuff :)
I am so impressed with you and your process. As a science teacher in Iowa, I constantly have conversations with students about how the arts and science have such a strong connection. Your podcast exemplifies that perfectly. Please keep making these wonderful videos! Thank you so very much!
Thank you Maria! You are so right, I also think that science and arts are going hand in hand. They are just different ways of humans brains interacting with and analyzing nature 😊 love that you are passing this on to your students!
Hi Anna, I really enjoy the natural dyeing segments. It is fun to learn the chemistry behind an ancient craft. I try to extract color from just about any organic material! If it's a fail, it can always be over dyed. Loved the FOs and new projects. I want to knit your Sun Ray Shawl, it is stunning. XX.
I agree that you have the perfect color of yellow. It reminds me of the fields of sunflowers that grow here in North Carolina. Wonderful to hear that you will be selling your natural dyed yarns!
Oh yes, it absolutely is a sunflower yellow! 🌻 🌻🌻 my friend also pointed out that it looks like gamboge, the dye that is used by some buddhist monks to dye their clothes!
Oh my gosh, Anna, your hand dyed yarns are so great. I don't even usually like pooling, but I'm obsessed with your Glowstone socks, and I'm living for Peppermint Mouse. So gorgeous. Also, thank you for your explanation of how indigo works. It was so fascinating to me. And your speckled indigo yarn is so cool.
Thank you so much Célèste! Until recently I also didn't really like pooling ;) But now I just love to knit crazy pooling vanilla socks! Still a pooling garment or shawl would be a bit too much also for me!
Beautiful yarn. Love seeing what you are making. The colours for your Dotted Rays shawl are amazing together.
Thank you! I am also very happy with the colors of my dotted rays 😊
Love the science behind the process. You have a great teaching style that keeps me interested. The finished products r beautiful!
Thank you Karen, glad you enjoyed it!
Your indigo dyed yarns are beautiful. Love the experiments as well. Green is also my favourite colour. Thanks for all the information on dyeing, soon, after the holidays I'll do my own dyeing with indigo ;-)
Hi Jo! That is super exciting to hear! I would love to see your indigo dyeing results - we have a thread in our ravelry group to share what is happening in our dye pots :)
Hello Anna! I watching from Chicago, Illinois ***USA Loved your video!
What an awesome episode, again! Your indigo dyes are absolutely gorgeous! I loooove the effects you create and all the vibrations it gives the yarn. I am a total fan
Thank you so much Nathalie ❤️ it means a lot coming from a natural dye expert like you ☺️
Hello Anna - I recently came across your podcast . I have so enjoyed watching your past episodes . Your explanations into the chemistry of dyeing are fascinating and you have made me want to have a go myself . I have always loved green -all shades . I even have an emerald engagement ring :-) I loved the effect of onion skins and idego - beautiful . Your choice of colours are inspiring . Thank you so much .
Hi Ann, thank you so much! If you are fascinated by dyeing - just give it a go! It's much more easy than it looks and so much fun!
Another great podcast, thank you sooo much. Thanks for the natural dyeing info, very interesting and informative. Keep up the good work and keep posting!
Thank you Claire! It's so good to hear that you found that info interesting 😊
Very interesting and very well-delivered lesson on natural dyeing. Your podcast is wonderful!
Thank you Joanna! It's great to hear that you found it interesting 😊
That shawl is awesome, I do not really wear scarves but I will knit and wear that one!
It’s been more than a year since I finished it and I can still say that it’s my favorite shawl ever. So I highly recommend it 😉
Your explanation of indigo dyeing chemistry was fascinating! I'm not sure I understood it all🙈 ... but it was very interesting!! Love your podcast and your natural dyed yarns! ❤️
Hi Jessica, thank you! Happy that you liked it ❤️
What a lovely podcast! Emily of Fibretown podcast led me to you. I have been binge watching your episodes as I have sat knitting my cardigan. Lovely!
Ohh thank you so much! Happy to be your company while you are knitting. Which cardigan are you making? If you like, feel free to share a picture in my ravelry group (I am always super curious!). All the best!
I think the speckled indigo yarn is my favourite, but they are all such beautiful colours :)
Thank you Ellie! I think I will play around more with indigo speckles 😊
Your videos are so informative! Thank you so much! I just started natural dying and your videos are such a big help plus your colors are amazing 😉
Thanks for sharing how you ply your singles with the spindle! I was looking for a simple way that doesn't require any additional tool to purchase, so your technique sounds like exactly what I need.
You are welcome 😊 I love plying from a center pull ball, even at the spinning wheel. It's just so great to have a continuous plied yarn in the end and no leftover singles. Happy to hear that this demonstration helped you!
Hi Lauraline, I am so glad to hear that was useful! Happy spinning!
I looooved your yarns.... You are very talented indeed! Brava!
Thank you so much 🌈☺️
i also love green :) my family teases me because i say i'm going to buy a different color garment but end up walking out the store with something greenish. will you sell your yarns again. i haven't seen any in the etsy store. i'd love to see a DK weight so i can make a light sweater. Love your podcasts Im learning lots and getting exposed to lots of new ideas and vendors. Keep them coming!
Found your channel looking for inexpensive and natural ways to dye the copious yards of muslin I have, because I don't want to toss it when I'm done with it. I want to be able to wear my mockups if they're salvageable, but don't want half my wardrobe to be easily stained from the white and off-white shades of muslin. Lol
Planning on my first project being a-line floor length skirt with some kind of tie closure, so that I can still wear it comfortably as my waistline fluctuates.
You are awesome! I love your video! I grew up in Lugano...somehow I knew you were in Zurigo! Thank you for posting this!
Omg Anna!!!! Your indigo dyes are so gorgeous! I love the speckles one! Lovely! Looking forward than you open your online shop! :)
Thank you Sophie 💙 I guess I'll have to play a bit more with indigo speckles!
I love your yarn and the podcast. Hope there is some left next weekend. I would love to try the organic merino. I will soon be learning how to spin with a drop spindle. I can't wait
Thank you so much Karol! The yarn is up in the shop right now! But it seems to be going out fast 😅 have a lot of fun learning how to spin, it's an amazing experience!
I saw but I can't buy anything this week. I am just hoping there will be some available next Friday. Then I can get some!!!!
This was such a nice podcast! Very informative and nicely recorded :D I really loved the natural dyeing part and all your scientific explanation about the use of indigo and how it works. So nice to be able to learn such things thanks to you! I'm now off watching your other videos :3 Keep up the great work! :)
- Ania
Gaalhway thank you very much Ania! Very happy to hear that 🤗
Hi Anna . Thank you again for sharing educational facts (for me at least). Wow that indigo is so different to color! It has a magic touch with turning the yellow into blue.
Do I see there plastic at the floor to protect? What about the walls? Getting a bit speccled as well? *Ü* Your speccled indigo yarn looks gorcious. I love the onioncoloured ones as well: I will start saving so I can try that myself one day.
I just started spinning: last week I bought myself a Bogway handspinner and are now experimenting with woolroving and fleece. Your way of plying is an eye-opener to me: now I will have two threads of the same length!
Your Morning Mist Top is going to be gorcious and your finished shawl; lovely.
When you show pictures you use a beautiful wooden tray. Is that craftwork also?
Again thank you for sharing and see you again!
Marjan
Hi Marjan 🤗 thank you for your lovely comment! Yes I cover the floor around the pot with this plastic foil you can get in the shops where they sell painting supplies (for painting walls), and I reuse it many times 😊 the wall is usually fine, gravity is my friend and makes the liquid drop on the floor, and I don't splash around so much 😜
Yes isn't a plying ball great? For a random twoply yarn I always ply from a ball, it's just nice to have a continuous plied yarn and no leftovers. I saw your bogway spinner on instagram, it looks so interesting!! Hope you have a lot of fun spinning with it.
The wooden tray is not handmade by me, but i have just discovered it as a pretty background for knitting photography 😊 all the best, Anna
Anna what a great episode! I was just thinking about you and wondering what creative wonders you are making and when I woke up - great video about your rainbow yarns! Love all the colours that you produced with indigo, onion, birch and cochineal! I would love to get my hands dirty and try to dye my own but so far doesn't seem possible, here where I am. So am looking forward to your etsy shop ;) i love your FOs as well, gorgeous socks and a beautiful shawl!! Great job! Already looking forward to the next video :) best of luck! :*
Hey Marina! Oh it would be so much fun to have you visiting and dyeing yarn together! I'm sure you would come up with the most amazing combinations. Thank you for your sweet comment and I hope you have a beautiful day!
FYI skip to 25:20 for natural dye info. The information is good and presented well. Although why it takes her soooo long to get to the information I don't know. I would have split this into two videos one about knitting projects and one about dyeing.
Hi Lucy, thanks for the comment. You are right. I have to say that this channel started out as a podcast format where I put several segments into an episode... I haven't really expected that people who are not following me because of the knitting stuff would watch my videos. 😅 In the meantime I started making separate videos in a fiber science series, which are shorter and contain just one topic. And I plan also to make one for the indigo dyeing process! Hope you have fun with your natural dyeing experiments.
dunkelgrün thanks I am having fun! As I said your video is really well paced and presented which is actually unusual in DIY videos. Can't wait to see more stuff from you!
Thank you! Was looking for a time, in comments, where the process actually starts. You saved me a lot of time. Thank you!
Wooooh! Such beautiful hand dyed yarn :D I think I would make a cardigan at least.
Thanks for another episode and keep up the good work.
Thank you ❤️ Oh my, a rainbow sweater would be delicious!
You dye the most beautiful yarn naturally Anna!
Thank you!! 💙💚
Love your podcast! And your naturally died yarn! Well done you!
Thank you ❤️
Great thank for all ! Your color are beautiful ...
Thank you very much Catherine!
Hi Anna, You can also use the Japanese Indigo and The English Woad for an excellent true blue. Oh and I find spinach and or nettles make a lovely green
Hi Maja, of course you're absolutely right about japanese indigo and woad. But interestingly the chemical compound in all the plants which produce a true blue is the same... indigo 💙😉 I have to try spinach and nettles yet to dye green - is it lightfast? Thank you for your inspiring comment!
Semi light fast, Over a long period of time they will change a little as they are natural, but the mordant slows it down a lot.
love your podcast ,thanks mary g
Yellow 5 is my favourite
This was filmed on my bday 😊
Greetings from Beirut ✨You work is really wonderful. Thank You so much for sharing the knowledge.
Ohh welcome to the podcast! Happy you enjoyed it. ❤️
would you be able to write out the lace portion that you did with your changes? i like the way that looks better than the pattern
Beautiful!!
Thank you Vickie!
Thank you to share your project.
How did knit your heel in your sock?
I love how they are finished.
I love your top for the KAL, wonderful!
Thank you Magdalena!! I feel the same way when it comes to plying - this time I just thought I do it for the challenge and ply this little bit on the spindle - but shall I be honest? The plying ball and the spindle are still in the same state as they were two weeks ago when I recorded this episode 😂
Thank you Magdalena!! I feel the same way when it comes to plying - this time I just thought I do it for the challenge and ply this little bit on the spindle - but shall I be honest? The plying ball and the spindle are still in the same state as they were two weeks ago when I recorded this episode 😂
:D
I'd love to see how you did the indigo dye speckles.
Hi Gabby! I just used the indigo vat to speckle the yarn :)
Anna,I would love a skein of that speckled Indigo. Do you have just one. Please help me!!
Hi Joyce! So happy to hear that you like it. Yes at the moment I have only one, but I could make more 😊 if you are interested, feel free to message me on ravelry!
Hello... I'm very new to the world of dyeing. I'm looking to buy some Alum. Does it need to be iron free ? I'm guessing not ? Thank you
Hi Hallie! That is a good question. The compound alum itself doesn't contain iron but as with many minerals and salts there are usually some impurities and trace elements. Iron does influence the color. But I am not sure how much iron is / can be present in natural alum. Anyways, I usually buy alum kn the pharmacy, they sell it for deodorants or as an after shaving thing (stops bleeding). And this is not specifically labeled as iron free. I guess there might be traces of iron in it, because in our earths crust iron is everywhere...
I just discovered your channel! I absolutely love the yellow from onion skins - I would call that shade "cadmium yellow" (I am an artist 💗).
Thank you Jay! Oh yes it really is a cadmium yellow 😊 but as a chemist that has a slightly too toxic sound to me for something I am wearing on my skin... hehehe 😉
Have you made any videos on natural dyes and the black material you have there at the end?
Hi Ron, I am popping in some information about natural dyes here and there in my podcast. In episode 2 I talked a bit about the chemistry behind the process. I haven't done any tutorials... my dyeing space is unfortunately too small (and my camera gear too big) to do that. I am not sure which black material you meant?
Ok Ron, I think I got which black material you mean :) the skein on the very right side of the rainbow? It's actually a dark purple. I dyed it with logwood and the details on how I dyed it are in episode 3 or 4 (the one with purple yarn and spring flowers in the title picture).
Im wondering,,,how to dye stretch fabric with indigo? :/
Hi Sam! The dyeing principle with indigo works the same for all kinds of materials. You need to create a vat with a basic pH and reducing agent. Then it depends which material your stretch fabric is made of - it works best with natural fibers. So a cotton jersey would take the color perfectly! Synthetic fibers might work not as well, but also those should take up at least a bit of color. You will have to experiment! Have fun :)
I have rewatched this podcast and I wonder... have you tried to dyeing using onion skins and no mordant at all? I have been reading for a while and it seems you can get rather nice results, but no idea how the colour will turn out as the explanations are not very accurate (kind of: "use as many onion skins as you can to get better results" is not my idea of accurate)
Hi Azucena, no I haven't tried this! I have a lot of alum mordant at home and so I always use it. What you can do to save time is add a table spoon of alum (per 100g skein) directly to the dyebath instead of premordanting. In my experience you can use between 10-100g of onion skeins per 100g wool depending on if you want to have yellow or orange. The dye content in the skins can also vary greatly, that's why it's hard to give a precise amount... so if you want to have yellow, I would start with a small amount, and you can always add more!
Thanks! You caught me in the middle of my first ever trial (no mordant). As my first intention is to see how it works with the minimum resources to show it to my students (we don't have access to chemicals... yeah :/ ), so far seems good :got an orange-redish colour and it is happily drying now :D
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lol