Setting Up An Organic Indigo Dye Vat

Demonstration showing how to set up The Wild Dyery's Natural Indigo Dye Kit by founder and teacher, Justine Aldersey-Williams.
This quick, easy and effective recipe is known as the 'organic 123' and has been popularised by natural dye master, Michel Garcia.
This tutorial is also part of the first comprehensive 12 week training "Natural Fabric Dyeing: Eco Colour, Print and Pattern' taught online at www.NaturalFabricDyeing.com

[@druvcole23]

Very clearly explained..it all looks marvellous 😊

[@TheWildDyery]

So glad you think so and thanks for the feedback : )

[@quintacabecadomato]

really good, perfectly explained, very organized of you, thanks

[@TheWildDyery]

thanks so much for the feedback : )

[@celialedressay9166]

fabulous ! thank you

[@NotSoKomal]

can we use normal table sugar instead of pure fructose?

[@shortyleatherworks5693]

The left over vat, how long can it be keep?

[@adventureofstyle5902]

What is your water ratio? I'm not following how much water you're adding to any of your components...

[@antoineharuto]

If it is 15 gallon water volume, what would be the measurement for process? please advise, thank you!

[@chekkeraakash6356]

Before dyeing don't you stir the vat??

[@AnkievanderPadt]

So I tried with a part of the ingredients and unfortunately, something went wrong. My dye looks more blue than yellow/green. When I added the wool for about 15 minutes it came out blue, not yellow and then turned blue (the temperature of the vat was 40C). The blue also seems grayer, less vibrant. I added a bit of extra lime and fructose and left it overnight, but no difference is visible. Do you have any advise on what went wrong, to learn from for the next time. And maybe any advise to activate this vat so I can still use it?

[@jesspin3]

the exact same thing happened to me.... hopefully someone can reply to this, thank you!

[@luclem.6234]

That means there was too much oxygen in the vat, meaning the sugar didn't work enough

[@orbisrubra935]

I would like to know if lime is Ca(OH)2 or Cao. thanks

[@jdelgadoesteban]

is Calcium Hydroxide Ca(OH)2

[@squareroot1697]

Can anyone explain this process? Is the indigo being broken down over time by natural process? I mean kind of like tobacco we’re it gets better with age as bacteria break down the tobacco.

[@TheWildDyery]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'being broken down' the indigo starts in a reduced solution i.e. a liquid where oxygen has been removed, the dye pigment is created when the fabric is oxygenated to create a permanent dye.

[@squareroot1697]

I ask because she is adding sugar

[@aloelcristal5795]

Do you use LIME or Lye? Some people think you are using the LIME here in the recipe.

[@TheWildDyery]

I'm using the ingredients in the dye kit available at www.NaturalFabricDyeing.com/shop as mentioned in the video this kit uses LIME which is Calcium Hydroxide.

[@tlf2022]

@@TheWildDyeryIs this kit is no longer available I get a 404 error page

[@Hippiechick365]

I’ve been dyeing with Indigo for 7 years and my favorite method is the 1-2-3 vat from Botanical colors. That recipe does involve much more stirring to incorporate the vat.

[@YT_Woodish]

If I wanted to make a solution in a big plastic bucket so I could dye larger pieces of fabric..how much water would I need to add to the mother solution please?

[@TheWildDyery]

how much water you add depends on how big your fabric is. You need to adjust the concentration of the vat by adding more mother solutions to suit.

[@YT_Woodish]

The Wild Dyery thank you

[@millanahorner3942]

If you are going to make a video, measurements would be nice, you are forcing people to buy from you. Not many people in the craft industry appreciate that, most are generous with their information.

[@MS-mp9om]

She's giving instructions on how to set up a vat from her kit. If you'd like measurements, surely you can find information on this somewhere else. It's called a 1-2-3 dye vat.

[@brendag5658]

She does give measurements

[@meaux8]

No portions given which would have been an essential point to explain in this teaching presentation. Little of this and little of that is not helpful ~ Thank you.

[@TheWildDyery]

This is a demonstration about how to make up The Wild Dyery's indigo kit which gives the ingredients in the correct proportions. You can buy the kit at www.NaturalFabricDyeing.com thanks