I Tried to Plant Dye with Walnut and Madder

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It is so fun to be back, it has absolutely been to long ❤️
During my last sewing videos, I have used fabrics for my sewing that has been plant dyed, and through that, I've got many questions about it. So in this video I take you with me, on a little journey, into the wonderful world of plant dyes!
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[@taylarmarr475]

Fellow Natural Dyer here! If you are able to dry the Husks of the walnut in the fall, you can save them to dye all during winter when they aren't available(Here in Canada at least) they give the same colour as they do when they are fresh! As well, Walnut's have the ability to Plant based fibres as well, so Cotton and Linen are possible. A good way to get huge pot is to either get a canning pot, or to go to a second-hand store and just buy the biggest pot available. A lot of flowers when used for Natural Dyes I find give better colours when Solar Dyed in Large (1 Liter) glass jars. Fruit Dyes, Strawberries, Blueberries,(I think Billberries are the European version) Cherries, are best by simmering the dye bath for 30 minutes, then letting it steep for roughly 8 hours, then adding fibres, simmering briefly, then leaving for a two or so hours. Cherries make a soft purple, Strawberries make a soft Pink, Blueberries a soft purple, but with some baking soda a green-ish colour. For both of these you don;'t want the heat to be too hot. Here I'm just going to list Dyestuff that's commonly available: Red Onion: If solar dyed for a week make a soft olive green, on Wool with Alum. Yellow Onion Skins: Give a Burnt Orange if used in a high ratio, one of the natural dyes that gives a similar colour on Plant based Fibres. Goldenrod: Not sure if it's available In Europe, but It gives the brightest yellow when the Dye stuff is cooked and alum and the wool is added to the dye bath together Most Herbs will give a soft yellow-green if attempted to dye with. Apple Tree: If you break some of the branches it will give a strong yellow colour. Tansy: Also a Yellow Privet Berries: Will give a blue, A teal, and a Sea-foam Green, if picked at different times of the year. This plant is a winter dye-plant and is best used from December to the end of January. Jewelweed/tocuh-me-nots: Is a plant i'm pretty sure is native to North America, might not be available to you, However it will give an Orange colour. Daffodils: If picked when the flower heads are dried, and solar dyed will give a strong and very pretty yellow, I leave them for a week, and the smell is terrible once opened, but the colour is beautiful. Since this one requires a large amount flower heads, unless you are overrun with Daffodils I'd recommend using it on a small amount of wool or yarn. Dame's Rocket,:the flowers can give a blue-ish colour too, solar dyed for two days, and the dye bath should look like a strong purple colour before hand, then simmered for 30 minutes, then the fibres added for 30 minutes and simmered. Willow twigs: Give a soft Orange, if the dye stuff is left to steep overnight, after being heated for an hour. Rose of Sharon: Will give soft teal; Dyebath: 30 minutes simmered, an hour and half left to steep, dye fibres for 30 minutes, leave for an hour. this one is interesting because like Indigo it needs to be exposed to air to show the colour, after you take it out of the bath. It is possible to get some shades of blue without using Indigo: Some Dark Red Lilies, cooked with the usual matter, of one hour heat for dyestuff, Wool and Alum together for an hour, then together for roughly an hour. Blue Potatoes, will also make a blue if done in the same way as the lilies. Rose of Sharon as well will give a If you have a dyestuff that should give a blue-ish colour but for whatever reason is not, you can add some baking soda and it will turn it into a lime-ish Green colour. (Note: Not Indigo, Do not use with Indigo) In regards to the Overdyeing of Green, Weld and Indigo: Yellow First, then blue gives a more standard plant colour green, while the other way gives a more teal green. If you are planning on doing a lot of natural dyeing, and if you don't have one already a Dyebook is also helpful. That way you can add any new plants you find in the field, and how you did it, so you can repeat the process later. Also, YES more plant dyeing video's please! It's exciting to see someone around my age as excited about natural dyeing as I am!

[@RavenStealstheNight]

WOW!!! Thanks so much for your expertise.

[@bluebellflamesx]

This is the most informative comment of my life. Its weird this video came up. I was just discussing natural dye for a wall hanging yesterday...

[@woodenkat8971]

Dyers woad is an invasive species where I live. How do I use that?

[@taylarmarr475]

@@woodenkat8971 I've never used Woad, but here's a link to a blog someone else made about Woad: wooltribulations.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-woad-dye-from-plant-to-wool.html

[@elinabrahamsson9442]

Thank you for all this information 😍 Why I didn't mentioned more than those plants in the video was just because I wanted to focus on the plants that we now was used for dyeing with in history. But of course there's so much more to explore when it comes to this. Thank you again!

[@ryokomoonbeam4624]

Also, I love the cute grey skirt you're wearing.

[@adaraperry9996]

I wonder where she bought it

[@monkiram]

Me too!

[@justyna1263]

I was about to comment the same thing... it’s so beautiful!

[@Floweroftheprairie2720]

Ryoko Dragomir same here.

[@vhehl698]

me too! It looks like the exact skirt I would wear all the time if I had the confidence too (and the money to buy it, it seems like a wool skirt, beautifully done!)

[@clarakoenig7923]

In English, a good word for this colour would be russet! It's glorious

[@AgentPedestrian]

I used dandelion roots one summer because there were dandelions.... everywhere that year. Made a really nice tan brown I must say 10/10 would dye again

[@rakucrease8030]

Yes would love to know too

[@AgentPedestrian]

You just harvest and simmer the roots (or the flowers if you want yellowish). Never boil it. Just like with any plant dye. I left mine to steep in a jar of water at the widnowsill for a few days beforehand.

[@nvlsti]

15:54 YOU HAVE THE FLUFFIEST CAT EVER. Also, good job on the plant dyeing. BUT THE CAT, OMG.

[@DeborahWilkerson-v7e]

I love your videos! Thank you! I do have a tip, I didn't read the other comments so I don't know if anyone else suggested this. I am an artist and I use dyes and other things that have to be heated. I went to a thrift store and bought inexpensive pots and cookware and labeled them "For Art Only, Not For Food". I keep these utensils stored in a bin away from my cookware that I use for preparing meals. The bin is also labeled "For Art Only, Not For Food". This keeps me from damaging the tools that I bought for food preparation. Also, just in case there is something in the art medium that is not safe for consuming, keeping separate pots and things keeps me from risking contaminating anything. Because they don't really need to be nice or expensive for making art, I am able to get second hand or lower priced stock pots that are much larger than I would use for cooking. I also found a camping stove at a thrift store so I can work outside and not make a mess in my kitchen. Thank you for your videos!

[@aestheticallyaspiring2692]

“Stove, no stove. Stove! No stove.” Idk why but this made me laugh so hard😂 love how it turned out☺️

[@StephanieBacks]

you wear such pretty clothes while your dyeing! i would be so nervous.

[@snyparaustralis540]

If you want to do more dyeing in the future, check out home brewing supply websites, they sell 20L, 35L, and 55L pots (there’s probably other sizes, but those are pretty common)

[@FennecTheRabbit]

Or like canning supplies. The pot my Granny used for canning when she made relish was HUGE, though idk how many liters.

[@grandmasmagic3858]

in agreement..if you KNOW you are planning on doing some dyeing then invest in much larger saucepans..why make your job harder..??? besides, they always come in handy for other tasks..

[@Katchtherabbit]

One thing you can do with madder, weld, and other similar plants is a cold dye. Use that white bucket you transferred your wool in and fill it with the right amount of water and madder root, or weld etc and then leave it for a week or so. That way you can achieve the bright colours along with an even dye! I would also recommend soaking your fabric with a mordant first if you want it to take up brighter colours.

[@BabyMieuw]

Omg Elin! You are the most pure and genuine person on KZbin! I really like the honesty and realism you show. Like at 6:20 when you knock the lid to the pan and then the expression on your face... That would happen to just about anyone, but instead of editing it out, you left it in your video's, which makes them a whole lot more relatable and approachable. (btw, it also reminded me of Rapunzel in the movie Tangled, when she knocks her frying pan to her head after she captured Flynn Rider..) It's a joy to follow you on your journey through historical re-enactment and historical clothing manufacturing. On a whole unrelated note, I absolutly love the grey skirt you are wearing from 11:34 onward. I wouldn't hesitate if I could buy the same one for myself somewhere in the Netherlands.

[@elinabrahamsson9442]

Thank you for all these kind words! Hahahah I took all of this as a big compliment😂 The skirt I am wearing is actually something I have made myself😊

[@BabyMieuw]

@@elinabrahamsson9442 It was ment as a compliment! :-)

[@vhehl698]

@@elinabrahamsson9442 I love the skirt! Can you maybe make a tutorial on how to sew it? I would love to recreate it, it fits my dream style perfectly!

[@lonitbonit5618]

Great, you've kick started an interest in plant dying... My husband will be so pleased. lol

[@chrispe82]

Well done! I love experimenting with plants & seeing what colours I can get. My only suggestion is to be aware if the dye is “food safe”. I have used flowers to dye & then found out they were poisonous so now I only use that pot for dyes not food. (But food safe plants you can use the pots for food). That is such a beautiful piece of fabric!

[@orbitingpluto3213]

I wonder if the fabric is safe if it is dyed with poisonous ingredients. Stay safe!

[@javaplum8364]

orbiting Pluto as long as you don’t eat the fabric!

[@Bhamgurl1]

Absolutely amazing. That's a beautiful color of rust. Very organic and true. Thank you for such a beautiful channel that I stumbled across this morning I'm still amazed at our sisters and brothers from Sweden and reconnecting back to our roots.

[@minimina1313]

oh man that's such a nice color. damn, now I want to plant dye

[@VNicanndrais]

As I watched this I was knitting a sontag I dyed with onion skins and walnut. I usually soak my walnuts (husk, nut and all, mostly because they are black walnuts and I wasn't sure how good they are/am lazy) in water to ferment for a couple weeks or months. It gives me a super-rich dark brown that I love.

[@aprilzarychta1912]

I have a very useful book on natural dyes. It's called Wild Color by a lovely woman named Jenny Dean. It divides plants and other natural dyestuffs up by color, larked with swatches at the edge of pages. Also lists different methods of fixing the dye like vinegar, alum, copper and iron baths, etc. Can't recommend it enough. My friends and I have made yellow with onion skins, pink with lichens (and a urea mordant that I wouldn't recommend), and a gorgeous golden orange with turmeric. When handling any of this stuff, it's a good idea to wear gloves. If it's meant to dye clothes, it will definitely stain your fingers. Many of the dyes and mordant baths can be irritating to skin, too, so make sure you're careful!

[@chrisfines5557]

Ah yes, stove - or not? Big pot - or not? Here's my fun experience. Many years ago I bought 60 metres of canvas to make a large pavilion, enough to hide a modern car at an event. I wanted three pretty colours, in evenly-dyed but huge batches. I had some prior experience, but no way did I have a big enough pot, or enough stove, for this. So my darling brought a (gasp) steel bathtub back from the dump, and that was my dye-pot! And some borrowed camp cook-stoves, going mostly on high, side by side on the dirt in our backyard. Bathtub was carefully propped across their tops, slowly-boiling dye baths inside, and me in gloves feeding long lengths of canvas around and around. Neighbourhood kids came to look, all asking for a turn! And their parents right behind, shyly asking many crafting questions... (This was before internet.) Eventually there were the desired colours to sew up, but that's another epic. However, determination can inspire some strange but surprising (for me, backyard party!) hacks. Anyway, you did a great job - nice, rich, multi-toned, and even colour, everything one could want, congrats! And thank you for a lovely video, brings back cool memories!

[@EsmereldaPea]

That's amazing! It sounds like something I would do. LOL.

[@blancaliliana9575]

You are so darling!!! Made me tear up picturing my own daughter doing fun things like this your parents must be so proud ❤️

[@ericathefae]

Aaaah, you're so adorable!!! The fabric turned out gorgeous by the way... I'd love to see more projects like this.

[@LanaFeyah]

Who knew that the path to pretty plant-based colours would be riddled with so many unforseen obstacles, haha! I love the end result, though!

[@squiddy2688]

I tuned in for research for my book and now I watched all these videos. I didn't need to watch them all. I don't sew and I'm a man. I just like the videos. Well done.

[@kerryhorwitz4093]

Beautiful colour. I enjoy how you don't give in when you run into a challenge. That is what my daughter says about me. I always have a plan B ....or C...or...you get the idea. I shall share something. I am old enough to be your grandmother. I have had a wild adventure of a life. One of the most useful things that has helped me through life is that gift I see in you. With this attitude, you will do well, wherever life takes you.

[@greenmacaroni8872]

That color is gorgeous and so is your cat! Thank you for sharing. Julie 🥰

[@reginaromsey]

I have a black walnut tree next door, and up against my fence. I call it the Zombie tree because it has been completely cut down twice in the last 30 years and it missed now very tall with many side trunks! The tree people told me it lives mainly underground in its roots! Love that I’ve found your videos. You make me want to go to an event all dressed in new, hand stitched clothes!

[@kim-marietomlinson3782]

I was so smiling at your joy of the colour! It was a lovely result!

[@islandbirdw]

You and Jonna Jinton have a lot in common. Both from Sweden both blonde young artists and into plant based pigments. She makes them for painting her artwork and you are attempting simply a different type of artwork. I just want to applaud you for being a rare young person who still values the old traditional sewing weaving and dying skills.

[@WitchOracle]

Aside from all the other glorious aspects of this video, the hunt for a stove is SO REAL lol. When my mother got an induction stove like yours she had to give me all her cookware that wouldn't work on it so she wouldn't accidentally try to use it. (which is a big yay for me because it's much better quality than I could afford to buy for myself right now, but was definitely a big bummer for her until she realized that meant she could get herself some new fancy pieces too!)

[@Goosenugget1]

I love watching you nerd out on naturally dyeing fabric it's so sweet and pure

[@gerdine9258]

My jaw dropped when you showed the end result. Such a rich colour!!😍😍

[@isabellcherrier1310]

Hello ! If you want keeping a great colour for a long time with plants, you have to add in the last bath a bit of vinaigre . It's stop the color to go away and It's help to stabilise the color for years. Thanks for your sharing. 😉

[@miriamgillham6701]

That is a most glorious shade of deep tannish, russety brown. Just love it! Elin watching you work is so magical and I love how fearless you are and even in your nervousness you carry on regardless of the glitches you face each time you do one of these dye baths. (Also you are just so entertaining and enlightening.) Keep going with your dye experiments as they are so inspirational!

[@lulumoon9]

Yes, please, more plant dyeing!!! This is a beautiful color! I may need to try overdyeing some of my walnut-dyed linen!

[@heaven-leejacobsen2022]

I love this!! I'm making my own kirtle (based off of your video, so thank you for that too!!) for a medieval festival in June, but I've been to my local sewing stores and I didn't like the colours they had/didn't know what kind of colour I wanted to use, I really want to try plant dyeing now because the colour you made is gorgeous

[@elinabrahamsson9442]

This makes me so happy! You have to send me some pictures when everything are ready😍

[@DistanceTraveled]

I love the aesthetic shots of your kitty while you were waiting for your dye to soak in. 💖

[@ank6043]

Brick red is one of my fav colours! Besides your plant dye, I've liked your style very much! Your white striped blue shirt and grey skirt are so cool!

[@gaelhillyardcreative]

My husband gave me a woollen scarf in a slightly deeper version of that colour years ago, and we used it as the inspiration for the drawing room in a Georgian house we used to own in Scotland. Although we colour matched professionally the paint came up quite red on the walls due to the south facing light. It was sumptuous (and was even on an interiors programme and in a few newspaper articles). I've still got the scarf and it's one of my treasured possessions.

[@carolharper268]

Terracotta, that’s the colour you’re looking for 😀beautiful.

[@bonniebernido8510]

That was so fun and engaging. Amazing video. And that dark gray wool skirt was gorgeous

[@humbledaisy]

A charming example - and I love the color. Where I live, we leave the walnuts out on a country gravel driveway to dry and then drive a car over them to crack the nuts out.

[@charlottemorelle3592]

Hi Elin, I discovered your videos two days ago...(boooouh). I found them really great and refreshing , just like you. This night I dreamt about a petrol-blue kirtle...I woke up craving for linen and threads :) My daughter (11 years old) asked me several weeks ago about dying with plants. I think I will show her your success (and translate it, we're french). Thanks for your work and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

[@beauchamp90]

That's a beautiful color. It's close to a brick red or burnt orange. Love it.

[@candacebritton8616]

omg i love how chaotic this gets, literally me everytime i try to cook or make anything ever

[@medievallassie]

I'm sure someone has already mentioned it but I haven't seen it in the comments that I have read....you should always wet the fabric before you put it into the dye. The water will help the dye travel into the fiber more evenly. Also, I noticed that someone mentioned getting a canning pot for a bigger pot. This is fine BUT, most of them are aluminum and it will change the color of your dye! Metals like aluminum, copper and iron will all make the exact same dye come out a different color! It's so fun to see what you end up with and you have made a gorgeous piece of fabric! Good job.

[@elinabrahamsson9442]

Thank you! Yes dampen the fabric before is something I knew, but when I was recording this, I had so much in my head so details like that just completely fell away. You're right, dampen the fabric before is important, and should be done!

[@EsmereldaPea]

@@elinabrahamsson9442 - an enameled canning pot is the best choice. They are relatively inexpensive and can often be found at second hand stores. Just be certain the enamel isn't chipped or scratched on the inside

[@rljohnsufl]

@@EsmereldaPea Yes, and also it would work on an induction stovetop. I assume that's why your large pot didn't work and you had to go get the portable stovetop? Most large soup pots are aluminum, which you do NOT want for this.

[@suzyqc7607able]

The Nut Is a Black Walnut. They usually need to lie in a warm-ish area until the outer green bit is fully black.. But all plants can be used at various stages to produce the most gorgeous hues as you have seen. You 've done so well, It is truly beautiful.. "}

[@monkiram]

I love the Swedish accent. I think because there are several Swedes I have watched videos from and they were all so lovely :)

[@evelienvandenbossche7751]

I LOVED how you were looking for the stove top. It just felt like an issue I would go through, doing the same. The way of editing your video brought up the right emotions to the viewer. Your proud face when you showed the beautiful end result is so great! thank you for this video!

[@madelinegutierrez1720]

Loved the video! Ive discovered that avocado pits and skins create a lovely pink - someone online (I'll have to look it up - shows a top she didnt want white and dyed with avocado.) While that might seem very rare and tropical - remember how for centuries people loved to dye with beetles - here's some wiki about them - "The (/ˌkɒtʃɪˈniːl/ , /ˈkɒtʃɪniːl/ ; ) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessile parasite native to tropical and subtropical South America through North America (Mexico and the Southwest United States), this insect lives on cacti in the genus , feeding on plant moisture and nutrients. The insects are found on the pads of prickly pear cacti, collected by brushing them off the plants, and dried.'"

[@jaskierdraven9191]

That colour is the embodiment of Autumn. I love it

[@chwastozercyancientslowfoo205]

Beautiful video :) 👏 Maybe somebody has already explained this, but we just wanted to: the coochineal is listed often on plant dyes because this Mexican insect lives on plants (Agava). However - historically, before 1492 - the purple colour was achieved by using a different insect: the local Porphyrophora polonica that lived on a plant called Scleranthus perennis (perennial knawel). Poland and Ruthenia were once famous for exporting this purple insect and therefore it's called Polish cochineal. All the best from Poland 🇵🇱💚 Thx for sharing the videos, we're following with great pleasure. Cheers!🌞

[@DLBard-bv2nd]

Your plant dye turned out so pretty. I would love to try the same process. Please include more content on natural dyes. This is very interesting. Thanks. 🐦

[@staceyme1480]

"You need to wear..gloves..." rethinks her life choices. Honestly love it. Perfect humour

[@l.m.2404]

I think that you were very courageous and adaptive which makes you very interesting to watch. My only suggestion would be to be certain that your fabric be wet before placing into the dye. This ensures more even saturation of colour. Excellent job, Elin.

[@l.m.2404]

Also, if you truly enjoyed the colour you created ...try dying with onion skins, very similar colour.

[@Itshoneybeee]

Love!! Please make more videos like this 😁 I love plant dyeing, and you are my favorite creative lass on KZbin! I have limited experience in dyeing, but i loved making little samples of cotton that i used plants/vegetables/fruit to create. Tea and coffee also make lovely color's too.

[@1mjh]

Love the colour! I have some tips I would like to share.This is some of the things I do when dyeing wool yarn. 1. Wash the fabric/yarn with wool sope, then soak it in cold water before dyeing, this will help securing a more even colour. (30-60 min) 2. If you have pots enough, heat up the fabric alongside the dyeing pot. This will ensure the same temperature in the fabric and the colour bath when you transfer the fabric to the dyeing pot, this is better for the wool. 3. The use of a mordant will give stronger and more light resistant colours. The different mordants also give their own caracteristicks to the colour = more colour options. I think walnut naturally has some mordant in it but I'm not sure. 4. Colouring with mushrooms is also really fun and you can get colours from earthy browns, reds, green, grey to intense purple and baby pink . but as mentioned earlier: Please use separate cooking and colouring utensils as some colours and mordants are toxic. There is a Swedish woman (don't remember the name) who has written a really good book on dyeing with mushrooms.

[@whimsicalmusedesign]

I would love to see you dye with other colors too! This process is so interesting!

[@renatehaeckler9843]

You are so funny!! An easy way to get the husks off the nuts is to put them on the ground (outside) and stomp on them, use the bottom of your (old) shoes to get them off then just carefully pick them up to put in your pot. I never remember to wear gloves until I see my brown fingers, Ha! Ha! You can get a darker dye by letting them sit in the water for a week or so then heating them up in it then letting it sit overnight before straining the hulls out. You can also scoop out some of the dye and use it for painting like watercolor, add layers to get darker and darker shades, it comes out very beautiful.

[@kat_the_mouse]

I actually think the walnut color was beautiful. And your sense of style is gorgeous, I love your clothes!

[@joycestewart4893]

I also love the in between shades. Beautiful color.

[@AdirondackRuby]

I've never seen Walnuts like that before. It never even occurred to me that they don't just always look the way they do when they are ready to be cracked and eaten. I've seen Chestnuts though (which is what my family traditionally eats at Christmas time). They are so spikey and intimidating. How did our ancestors ever think to open all these weird looking things and eat what was inside? They were braver than any of us are today, that's for sure. Off-topic: Your cat is so majestic!!!

[@EsmereldaPea]

Our ancestors no doubt observed what wild animals ate when moving to a new area. *Usually* what one mammal eats is safe for others (but not always!)

[@AdirondackRuby]

@@EsmereldaPea Very good point.

[@6709LeftzBehind]

I was so worried you were going to splatter on your clothes and couldn't help but notice your fashion sense is so well suited to you! It's put together, complements your figure, and seems to work for all seasons. I had no idea how to dress when I was your age. Even today I wear all kinds of things that don't suit my body. The fabric turned out great, I think the color really highlights the soft woolly texture. I think it looks similar to sienna or burnt sienna.

[@nicoledeloncrais5940]

Welcome to"" the strange in between shades"" club. This colour is cognac a very beautiful traditional colour that I have not seen in decades. truly lovely.

[@CyberianWaste]

I love the final color! And it's okay if you aren't an expert, you are a very capable person who can handle unexpected obstacles. Take pride and confidence in what you do, you are awesome! 😁😁😁

[@dianesawyerdooley4424]

That is an amazing color and you should be so proud of yourself! I've been too nervous to dye, and I think that needs to stop. I love how you throw yourself into your projects and just make them happen.

[@trojanette8345]

I definitely like the way it turned out.

[@sileigh1]

This is so amazing. I love plant dying and it is such an interest process.

[@danrooc]

You kept me smiling all along the video! :-D

[@Dolthalion]

I'd call that colour russet! It came out beautifully though. It looked like that strainer worked pretty well for this, but if you have something finer that you want to strain you could line it with a piece of thin scrap fabric. You'll have to be patient, but it'll keep all the bits out!

[@chandonsikes1817]

I think you are a beautiful person with a gorgeous spirit and soul. Also your home is pretty.

[@matrixiekitty2127]

Such a beautiful, rich color!! Your cat is also so fluffy and adorable💖

[@londontoseoul]

Hi there ~ I came across your lovely videos today :) I have some expertise in natural dyeing so I can offer you some tips! - First, it is best to soak the fabric in water before you dye it, so that it will take the dye evenly. Second, if your fabric does not fit in your pan, just dye it in a big plastic tub (of course then you can't heat it while dyeing, but it will still work as long as it's hot when you start). Lastly, to achieve strong colours we use a 'mordant' (such as alum), but you should not use these at home (unless you contact your local water authority to ask about safe disposal). Hope you have fun experimenting! The colour you got is really beautiful :)

[@kongakanyeba6990]

You seem really nice, and how you walked us through the process; very humble....will be catching up with you..for sure😊😊

[@bonesoftheterra]

Cochineal is a beetle...used to be used for dye and colorant of liquors in times gone by. Not lice :)

[@Maniafilia]

Still used, sadly

[@argusfleibeit1165]

I am amazed you got such an even color result, using such a small pot with that much fabric. I have only used synthetic dyes that RIT makes (maybe they are only in the US). They even encourage you to use your washing machine and put on slow agitation to make an even result. But then your washing machine needs to be bleached inside, to keep you from staining your next load of laundry. Bunching your fabric in a too small container often leads to uneven shading and even crease marks. I would not try to dye anything bigger than a shirt in a pot that size that you used, if I was picky about how even I wanted it to turn out. Mostly I have done tie-dyeing on a stove-top. There you are deliberately tying and bunching your project, so a small container is not a problem.

[@charlotteroberts]

That turned out so well!! Brilliant video as always. Can't wait for the next one.

[@lizzy1602]

It's a really beautiful color! Well done!

[@miss4315]

I've been binge watching your videos. That are amazing. You have so much energy and enthusiasm. I've really been appreciating your editing and topics. I think its brilliant you share the ups and downs of your process it's really refreshing. I can't wait for more videos :)

[@paulathevalley]

more plant dyes? yes please

[@marthabenner6528]

If you have a bathtub, you can mix the Walnut ink concentrate from the pot into the water in a tub and use that to dye your fabric. And the fabric should be wet. PS. One teaspoon of alum per bath to keep your color fast.

[@Tza-Ryna]

Well done!!! You made a perfect Russet colour. It's a brown with a reddish-orange overtone.

[@solavita306]

What a beautiful soft rust color! I love it. If you haven't solved the pot problem yet, see if you have a restaurant supply store nearby. The sell supersized stockpots.

[@myrandameans2123]

Your videos are very well done and I love your happy personality. Thanks for making great content!

[@lidicelehtola8833]

It’s a gorgeous colour!!! It turned out so well 🌷🌷🌷💕💕💕💕

[@samithh]

I'm excited to see what you make with it!!

[@Porthosity]

I can't speak to the dye-process, but I wanted to say that your humor, video editing, and very upbeat way of doing things is amazing to watch. I'm very much looking forward to seeing more videos! Its great to see someone young doing historical things, speaking as another younger person. Keep up the great work and stay safe- may your stitches be straight and your dyes well-colored!

[@ello_verity7667]

You are wonderful. I love watching your videos and they make want to go and Do Things for myself ☺️

[@hartsarah12]

I am surprised one of your options was not to buy a bigger pot. I think this should be something you look for while thrifting. I got mine when someone was throwing a big tin out because it had a hole. I fixed it with some glue and it works great. Maybe not for plant dying....since you have to use heat. Oh and you make me so nervous without an apron or something to protect your amazing outfits. But, it was a success.

[@MrsBrit1]

You ended up with a lovely rust color! What will you be making with you're freshly dyed wool?

[@elinabrahamsson9442]

I hope it will be enough for a 17th century jacket 😊

[@jackiemartin2874]

Beautiful color! Very autumn!

[@i.s.s.y7998]

I was just admiring your clothes throughout the entire video! You have such a lovely sense of style

[@bekahcarroll2647]

This video was so interesting! it was very fun to watch your process (and your cat). It would be so cool if you could do more plant/natural dyeing in the future!

[@ashleysovilla2037]

I often dye in a huge stockpot OR in a storage tote in a pinch! 😊

[@cakepopaudio5155]

like a warm sienna really pretty

[@caoimhenimhuireadhaigh1303]

It is such a beautiful terracotta colour!

[@caaali23]

i loved to watch this process. thank you! x

[@elisabetfinlayson8539]

Walnuts you say? Immediately click! Maybe the colour is copper? Nevertheless it’s beautiful. Also yes more plant dyeing please! 😂

[@brittianica]

Elisa Finlayson looks closer to burnt sienna, which is a common paint colour

[@elisabetfinlayson8539]

brittianica that is true

[@thedistinguished5255]

I love how you phrased your comment

[@yvonnethompson8758]

absolutely amazing color well done to you!

[@tspeecestudios]

The most relatable dying video I've ever watched!

[@Thecrazysamurai69]

6:12 love the sabers!

[@thepearlatelier4256]

What a beautiful warm colour.