Dyepot PS #39 - Swatching All Purple Acid Dyes! Dharma, Jacquard, & Greener Shades (Dry Dye Powder)

Swatching all of the purple acid dyes in my collection! 15 Dharma, 4 Jacquard, 1 Greener Shades. ChemKnits Patreon: / chemknits
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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction
[1:30] The 20 Purple Colors
[3:23] Presoaking the Yarn
plain tap water
[3:39] The dyebath
Cold, 100 g yarn in a pan, 4 cups water + 1 T white vinegar
[4:56] Swatching the Pinker Purples
In order: Amethyst (D), Amethyst Purple (G.S.), Berry Crush (D), Plum Dandy (D), Espresso Bean (D), Aubergine/Eggplant (D), Antique Mauve (D), Twilight Gray (D), Purple Pop (D)
[10:03] Summary of the pinker pan
[11:34] Swatching the Bluer Purples
Royal Purple (D), Purple (J), Deep Purple (D), Electric Violet (D), Violet (J), Lilac (J), Lilac (D), Intense Iris (D), Periwinkle (J), Hyacinth (D), Delphinium Blue (D)
[17:29] Summary of the second pan
[19:26] Both pans together
(still cold)
[21:21] Swatch Picture with Labels
[24:33] After heating for 15 minutes
Add 2T white vinegar to each pan + 8 cups of water
Heat for 30 min and then let it cool completely
[28:15] The cooled yarn
[29:37] Washing the yarn
[30:36] The swatches!
[30:37] The finished dry yarn and conclusions
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[@MoonfishSparkle]

Hi Rebecca. I really love how both of these skeins turned out!! Very cool, very unique, very pretty! I am so very glad you have such a passion for dying yarn! Your yarn dying passion has been very educational for me!! Thanks!!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you for watching! I love love doing vidoes like this!

[@sylviamaxwell504]

Cute haircut! Woo Hoo purple..... I've noticed thru the years, that people don't Like purple, they LOVE PURPLE!! 🤣💖😗 in all of it's incarnations!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

oh I LOVE LOVE LOVE purple! And thank you!

[@daisyswaffer8799]

These swatchings are so useful, thank you!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

You're very welcome!

[@sadiesspincraft6319]

Thanks for doing these Rebecca I have noticed with dharma that once you add heat the colours change to more the colour they say they are rather than when you first get the powder out x

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

You’re welcome 😊 Not just with dharma colors, but specific pigments need some heat to really dissolve for sure.

[@davidhensley76]

Purple overload!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Greens are high up on my list, too! There is a lot of diversity in there.

[@wildflower-spirit-creations]

Okay the purple is my favorite but I'm really liking the pink too. That was very interesting

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!

[@daisyswaffer8799]

Greens would be great to do this with, there really is a big range of different colours for green!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I'm thinking the same thing. There is a HUGE range.

[@rebeccaroediger2827]

Thank you again❤ been watching all day😊sooo much info

[@lilapowell5272]

These are beautiful! Both are so nice. Have you done any shades of turquoise? That is another favorite to think about. Your videos are so inspiring!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I think for turquoise I would likely do all blues (there aren't THAT many lighter blue shades) but I would try to stick the brighter ones together

[@lilapowell5272]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials the Peacock feathers have gorgeous shades plus the other colors in them would be beautiful with those and the tropical oceans have so many varieties of shades.. just thinking about them gives me thoughts on what you’d be able to do! So exciting! Love everything you create too!

[@annehayward3506]

Very interest experiment I think I liked the more pinky shades of purple.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!

[@dianem7563]

I enjoy watching the swatching tutorials so I have an idea of a color before I buy. I like the blue purple pan the most.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Those are my colors for sure!!

[@alisonemslie-smith1217]

Thank you for sharing, I love seeing the colors “in the flesh”.like this. I liked the blue purples but berry crush was new and exciting to me It really doesn’t matter what colors you do next, I would watch anyway. I would like to see you swatch the blues. There are so many blues! Personally I want to see the turquoise’s teals, cyans and aquas. The reds would be very interesting. I find the greens and bronzes fascinating as well and always wonder which I want to consider ordering. .yellows? Neutrals? Just go with your instincts! It is all good

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

The issue I have with reds is that they are all so close! I swatched a bunch for the watermelon video, and some of the differences are so subtle I think I'd need to do a 1% DOS of each to really see the difference. I'm excited to do more!!

[@tracyirwin103]

This experiment was so helpful! it's amazing how different the purples can be, even when they are named the same. I like the pan with blue purples but the Dharma amethyst is my favourite of all the colours today, even though it's not really a true purple. I'd love to see a red group.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Glad it was helpful! I think on of my favorite parts was seeing what was unique for each brand and what colors were super similar to each other (at least in this dry powder form!)

[@MindfulCraftsMore]

Great tutorial 👍🏽 definitely see the differences in the various purple dyes. Thanks so much.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

You are so welcome!

[@KitAlda]

I'm neutral as to which colour group you should do next, but I'd love to see you include a dab of food colouring in with these colour groups! So if you do blues, maybe include a few drops blue no 1 as one of the colours etc.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

This isn't a bad idea to do at some point! Maybe I could try to match the color right colors with acid dyes at some point to see what they're dupes for.

[@Mel79439]

Omg I need this yarn!!! Just beautiful!!!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

THank you! The yarn is still available! www.etsy.com/listing/1027636328/variegated-dk-weight-yarn-100-superwash & www.etsy.com/listing/1041595789/variegated-dk-weight-yarn-100-superwash :D

[@jygood3718]

Thanks, Rebecca. 👏👏 this is so useful for those of us in other countries, where we have to include huge postage costs to get our dyes. I'd love to see any colour, Primaries would be a great start and go anywhere you like. ⭐😊

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

You are so welcome!

[@cosmicgeologist]

i’ve been a fan of this channel for years, and ur videos are what encouraged me to actually dye my first skeins of yarn! i got some second hand alpaca in a yellow i didn’t rlly like and it’s now some rlly pretty greens :D

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Congratulations on your first dyeing!! It is really fun to be able to shift things that you wish were a different color. There were points years ago where I wish I had known this!

[@IceWeirdo]

Shallow dive : please don't dive in the shallow end! 😂

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

LOL! I don't dive into shallow water. ;)

[@IceWeirdo]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials hehe, I know, I'm kidding:p

[@danitshmueli5006]

Super super beautiful

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much

[@TarotLadyLissa]

Amethyst (dharma) doesn’t look like the stone at all. I think they missed the mark when developing that color.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

There are some amethysts that are more red colored... but I also have no idea how companies pick the names of their dyes.

[@breakmydreams]

I would love to see you do this with the blues.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

YES! I eventually want to do all of the colors I have.

[@breakmydreams]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials That would be fun to do :)

[@jenthulhu]

The Greener Shades 'amethyst' purple is more muted because Greener Shades doesn't make a good cool red or magenta. It's just as pigmented or as dark. But it's not as bright or chromatic. The presence of some yellow in the hue mutes the purple (opposites on the color wheel). Fun fact: in the art world blue purples (blurples :) ) are called violet. The redder shades can be referred to as purple or even red-violet. These dye companies likely all source from the same manufacturers, so that's part of why many of the shades are so similar between brands. If you can't afford all of the shades you really want, I would suggest purchasing a rainbow of clean colors and making your own muted shades when you want them by adding tiny amounts of the complementary color. Looks like the purple pop has extremely tiny particles in the pink portion of the dye--because of the way it really likes to whoosh out! That's an amazing color! I wonder if it's fluorescent?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Oh cool!!! Purple pop is very fluorescent! THe pink pigment in there at least is.

[@saraa3418]

Can we get a fiery jump into orange? (deep dive doesn't seem apt for orange, lol) There's your citrus orange, terracotta, brown, yellow, pumpkin, and more red tones. I'd also love to know if you follow my hunch about cadmium in orange and yellow acid dyes. I'm specifically thinking about Dharma Monarch that has a cloudy particulate that's hard to keep in solution and smells the way that I remember cadmium yellow and orange acrylic paints smelling.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I'm not sure how helpful I'd be RE smells or stock solutions with the crude swatching, but I think that colors that look super dusty at first and then the pigments bloom with heat/acid a bit are likely ones that may be hard to make a stock with. I like firey jump! lol.

[@nancyhughes386]

How about doing grays? I am looking for a warm gray.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Grays are on the list to do eventually for sure! I'm sure I've swatched them side by side at some point, but I don't see them on the first blog post I shared with a bunch of swatches www.chemknits.com/2021/04/swatching-acid-dye-powders-on-yarn.html

[@nancyhughes386]

Do blue next. I love blue.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I love blue, too!

[@leahgroess5361]

As Merriweather says, "Make it blue!"

[@mariabeebe6297]

At what temp are you heating the yarn? STove top or oven? I tend to favor reds so I like the pinker swatch. Would love to see the reds. I tried using Jacquard (or Dharma) salmon and was surprised by how bright red it was.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I try to aim for just below a boil on the stove top, but sometimes things get a little hotter than that. I check frequently and adjust by feel mostly. I don't really use my oven often.

[@donnahurley423]

You didn't swatch cabaret. It's also a purple color from dharma.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I put that more in the red/pink category, although it does lean purple for sure.

[@hazelsweet7127]

Im looking for purple pop and berry crush, but i couldn't find on the their website. Are they changed n names? Hope you can help me, thank you

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Berry crush looks like it is out of stock in one size right now, but they are all on this page: www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dharma-acid-dyes.html

[@user-bj8xl2bt2i]

Does Intense Iris (Dharma) tend to go black for you or is it just me? I've used it twice now and both times it is such a deep purple that it looks black under some lights.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I don't think I've had it look black, but it can get super dark if you use a lot of it.

[@dawnjanz]

I like the purple/blue better

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

That is my pan for sure!

[@dominiquemichaud7945]

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

OOoooo!

[@pattigolden1]

Greens..... Not bright sunny greens....but deep moody greens.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

When I do green I'll do all the greens I have! :D

[@nancymorgan5505]

The “paint chip”representative color seem fairly useless!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I think that they represent the color at a 1% DOS on silk. Using the dry powders directly on yarn, even pastels look more pigmented.

[@jygood3718]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials I'd like to see them update it to wool.

[@saraa3418]

@@jygood3718 Check out Nicole Frost's work on Insta she's got a "dye atlas" on superwash merino sock yarn to look at.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

@@jygood3718 Makes me wonder if they do more business with people who dye/paint silk versus dyeing yarn

[@jygood3718]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials I think that silk painting has had a strong following throughout the years, whereas hand dyeing wool has had a resurgence in the past 10 to 15 years