Natural Dyeing in the Viking Age | A Basic Overview

[@J0kerScars]

Great video, shame I found it so late. Channel hasn’t gotten another video in several years

[@nordskovstudios7026]

Thank you for the great explanation of what they would have done in the Viking age. I look forward to learning more on the Viking Economy, and the goods they would produce for the market place.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

I've found that unrolled cotton balls make good test subjects that you can make a small amount of a dye to test it out. Also one way to tell if there's a lot of iron in your tap water is if you regularly get a pink slimy film on your bathtub and sink that you have to scrub off. That pink film is a bacteria that consumes iron. So if you get it in your apartment building you know that there's at least a little iron in your water. I also recently experimented with heating my water in a kettle that looked like it was made of bronze, but could also be copper. Using this water to brew purple cabbage yarn made a lighter color with an unearthly glow to it. Not a literal glow, I mean the shade it developed. It was incredible. Also don't forget that besides urine you can get alkali from potash. Put your ashes out in a pot or jar before it rains, and then let the rainwater fill the jar and seep in. Oak produced high quality potash.

[@Powersnufkin]

Amazing video. Well done sister.

[@steviegiammarino4150]

Thank you for a special look into the past....very interesting and informative!

[@sjorvaldarvikings809]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@marlopata4096]

Well done, Kat!!! You have smoke passing your position...cooking up something fun? If you demonstrated more of the processes whilst describing it, it would have been more engaging.

[@katlarafnsblo86]

Yes, we were both cooking a meal and dyeing wool with the lichen as I did the filming of this portion of the video. We hope to do more instructional videos in the future where we dive a bit deeper into individual dye materials and the process. I hope you enjoyed the information.

[@sjorvaldarvikings809]

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[@tinaashworth8282]

I am so trying to get purple and fushia! I have not used natural things to dye fiber, except paper, it's going to be fun experimenting, I have 2 different lichen on trees in my yard so already collected some off the ground! Thank you

[@sjorvaldarvikings809]

glad you enjoyed the video!

[@nadiahill3223]

Thank you for a fascinating tutorial 🤗💐🌼💐

[@sjorvaldarvikings809]

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