Let's Dye a Dress with a 2000 Year Old Technique and 50 year old ingredients | Batik Dinosaurs
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Hello friends! My greataunt gave me a vintage mailorder box full of crafts. And my patrons voted that I would attempt to use the cold water textile dyes that came in that box. So, here we are; we are attempting a batik dye on a thrifted linen dress. Does that make it a thriftflip?
We are trying batik, which is an ancient technique of resist-dyeing. By putting beeswax on your cloth you protect some parts from the dye, and thus creating patterns. You can draw with a pen or stamp the pattern on. We're doing the latter today with some stainless steel cookiecutters in the shape of dinosaurs. Because this Barbie loves dinosaurs.
The project doesn't entirely go to plan, but I think the endresult is still cute. What do you say?
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What is your favorite dinosaurus?
Ankylosaurus! Cause ankles and they are spikey tank looking things.
@kristalburns3490 it's also my husband's favorite!
@@MijnWoldenwhat a cool husband you have got!
Dromiceiomimus, the emu mimic.
Plesiosaurs are just marvelous!
My favourite Dinosaur is a weewarrasaurus, an Australian Dinosaur the size of a cat.
This is a lovely dress, you got a great result
Weewarrasaurus is such a fun word to say!
You like absolutely stunning in the dress. You should be so proud. And we’re all packing our tum tum around. I call mine a jelly belly lol.
😎
You give old ideas a fresh spin and I'm here for it!
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When I was a kid, we did batik . We dried the items and then ironed with heaps of paper towel to absorb the wax. Boiling is so clever, noburned fingers.
Well, I eventually had to call in the help of my iron too 😅
This was so fun! As a connoisseur of vintage craft kits, this is something I have not yet come across! But I'd probably be intimidated by it even if I had. The dinos are a stroke of genius! My favorite dino is the stegosaurus because it's the most fun to draw. But as a kid, I liked all of the long necks.
I think the dress is adorable! But if you find that you don't want to wear it much, it looks like it could be cut into a really cute skirt and halter top set. Then you could break up all the pink more easily.
The box that I have been given is most likely a hodgepodge of all the crafts my great aunt (or someone she knew) didn't try from this mailorder subscribtion. So you're not the only one intimidated 😅
I did batiking as elementary school student too. As an adult I've taken my international students at the university to the Royal Tyrell Museum(Canada's main dinosaur museum) on field trips to see the dinosaurs. We have always had a blast on these trips. PS: You can still over dye your Barbie dress with a modern tie-dye kit, although I think the pink is beautiful and definitely a success.
I've grown fond of the pink now, so no overdyeing in the near future :)
🤣a pink pizza ... you are soo funny😂 and that dress is quite funky funky. I likes it. And you looks good in it.
Well, it's a local pizza place with great pizzas 😅
Fun episode! I love your “go for it” style. The dress turned out great and it’s a great color and fit on you. 🧶
Thank you 🥰
Brontosaurus is my favorite dinosaur🦕. Your dress turned out really nice🤩
🦕🦕🦕🦕
The Ankylosaur is my favourite, closely followed by Dimetridon! So happy I found your channel. 👩🏼🦼🏴💖
Ankylosaurus is getting a lot of votes, it is a really cool tank after all :D If you're happy, then I'm happy too!
Your dinosaur dress is cute. The pink is everything. You did a great job!
thank you :)
That dress is phenomenal! Everyone needs a shocking bright outfit to bring a smile on dreary days. I super dig your creativity and style. And you look Fabulous in that dress. ❤
Thank you ☺️
My favourite dinosaur is Utahraptor; A very big terror chicken! I modelled a few animals in my fantasy world that I draw after them
Really cool! Terror chicken is now my new favorite way to describe (a lot of) dinosaurs, and chickens.
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast .
I love the Dinosaur 👗 Dress the colours are amazing as are the Dinosaurs themselves.🦕🦖
Hope you and Dries have a Wonderful Vacation.
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx ❤❤❤🫂🫂🫂🐕
Thank you, Jen 😁
@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, I hope you're both OK ❣️❣️❣️
You're very welcome xx ❤️❤️
Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥
Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞
Have a Wonderful Vacation 🎡🎡
Take care, lots of love and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕🦖
It looks very cute! I love the little dinosaurs! What a great idea to use cookie cutters.
Thank you ☺️
As someone with a seemingly identical set of cookie cutters I recently thrifted; I had never considering using them for resist dyeing but now after seeing your creation I absolutely must try it!
Stay bold! Thank you as always for sharing your process.
@kalka1l please share how it went!
What a great project! Batik is so cool, I’ve only done it once but it was helping a grade school class with it, not my own project.
Batik with kids sounds like a whole new level of chaos
I really like how the top part of the dress looks on you, without the shirt underneath, I think it's very flattering ^^
Though it feels more flattening than flattering 😅
@@MijnWolden wooops ^^
My fav dinosaur is a Triceratops. It was my college's mascot, in a competition I went to (it was a competition amongst colleges) some other students made fun from different colleges but no one can successfully shame my love for the mascot
Triceratops are cool, wearing a Crown like the Royalty they are 😎
Ik heb je kanaal een tijdje geleden gevonden en heb met veel plezier een aantal van je pockets gekeken. Tot nu toe niet geabonneerd, maar je roze dinojurk heeft het gedaan voor me, heerlijk en geniaal, batik met koekjesuitstekers, je hebt er een nieuwe abonnee bij. Ik hou van je shenanigans.
Dankjewel 😁
Barbie dinosaur!!!! I love it very much as someone having a Barbie summer and someone who is very pro-dinosaur. I vote you wear it to all the things.
My favorite dinosaur is a velociraptor because 1) Jurassic park (yes, I know it's not accurate) and 2) more realistically, I like to think about them being small, poofy, feathery carnivores stalking their prey.
And they probably had quite colourful feathers too, which makes them all the more ferocious 😁
I can't say which my favourite dinosaur is, I like them all. If you watch Aron Ra on the subject of dinosaurs, he explains how all birds are dinosaurs and some dinosaurs were birds. Since I like both birds and dinosaurs, that just makes both more awesome to my mind.
It's really interesting to look at birds' feet and still see Dinosaur claws
Your dress is adorable and so are you 💕🌸!
Thank you 🥰
Wat een gaaf project! En de jurk en de kleur staan je zo goed! 💗
Dankje 😁
I would have added a “tree star” or two! IYKYK
Triceratops is my favorite!
Or a nightflower! (I don't know of that is the correct translation, in Dutch they were 'nachtbloemen')
Do they have a Dutch version of the cartoon movie "Land Before Time"?@@MijnWolden
Batik!!! My mum, her two sisters and two brothers attended the "Scuola d'Arte"in town as at their time there was that one and a couple more only(I write it amongst commas because I don't know exactly if Art School really express the things they did in the 70's there ).she and my aunts did a lot of Batik and always told me how fun it was but also very challenging. And results are beautiful!!! I always wanted to try too. I love dinosaurs since I was in the kindergarten my favourite is the Triceratopus (I wrote it wrong I know). Love the dress, maybe because recently I put some order in my music and listened to lot of 90's hit that made me nostalgic,and as you said the dress is a bit 90's style but it's lovely and it fits perfect on you, shape and colours are simply made for you!!!!! P.S.I'm in the tummy pouch club ......
Very challenging indeed 😁
I don't think I have a favorite dinosaur. I am not a Dino girl. But love the Dino Dana, show eith her crochet dinosaur outfits. Yes i crochet a trodon dino hat for my friends son as this is his favorite.
I am not a, Pink fan but you look cute in this dress. And dinos had bigger bellies then you.
Also this video reminded me of making tie dye outfits for a, metal festival many years ago with my friends. Good old times Have a lovely day
Dinosaurs had big bellies is going to be my affirmation in the mornings from now on 😎
It looks great on you! I think it's super cute! Pink isn't my color either, but I love that it screams barbie with frikin dinosaurs! Also, my fave Dino is triceratops 😁
The colour does *scream* indeed 😂
Adorable! I too love dinosaurs. Not all projects go to plan, doesn't mean they don't end up awesome!
It is good to persevere indeed!
I like dinosaurs, but I never saw a pink one... till now. 😃 The last time I did batik was 30 years ago. My t-shirt was blue
I never saw a Dinosaur in any other colour, so they could have very well be pink 😉
very cute, ice will get the wax where you can pick it out ~ freeze it next time
Next time I'll try that instead indeed
Wat is je jurk gaaf geworden 😍. Staat je goed hoor…ook de kleur. Lekker anders dan anderen❤. Geniet er van. En dino’s 🦕🦖🐉…wie vindt ze nu niet gaaf!!! Fijne vakantie!
Bedankt!
Using cookie cutters for the design is so clever! I think the dress came out cute too! The color looks good on you even if it is on the intimidating side, haha. I wonder if boiling it completely submerged and then letting the water cool overnight while dress stayed under the water would have worked? (my logic being that it would harden at room temp and then you could just scoop out the wax off the top and then free the dress from the water.)
My favorite dino is the Archaeopteryx!
That was the theory indeed, but it didn't want to stay submerged, even after weighing it down...
Love it (even though it's PREhistory)! ❤
Blast from the past, no matter how far away!
Well now I want to batik dye.... Also, I also encountered an air problem when dying shoes- ended up having to force them under with chopsticks.
Air, what a nuisance, right?
What tummy?
You might not be the biggest fan of the colour, but it does look really good on you. The dress is fabulous, whimsical, and fun. You might feel you have issues with the fit, but it actually ‘irons out’ any perceived generosity around the tummy area because of its proportions. Attention is drawn elsewhere. So if you feel comfortable in it, wear it.
On the subject of batik and getting rid of wax: I’ve lived in Nigeria and in Malaysia. Batik of various methods were made there. To get rid of the wax, not just one but several hot water baths were used. In order not to waste water, the subsequent water baths were allowed to cool off so the hardened wax could then be collected. Both the water and the wax would then be re-used. As a last and final measure the cloth would be ironed between two absorbent layers. This was of course for large batch batik projects. For just one item, it would get quite long-winded to really cool multiple water baths and re-use the water. Still, if you have the time it’s a valid option.
About the wax used for batik: I don’t remember the recipe used in Nigeria I was just a small kid at the time. In Malaysia they use a blend of beeswax and resin.
Favourite dinosaur? Actually I’d say the shark. Because it’s managed to survive up to today.
Oooooh the multiple baths is really clever
cool, ik heb die doos ook nog ergens liggen. Batik nog nooit getest, maar wel leren spinnen met deze doos ;)
Er zat inderdaad een tol bij 🙂
Your dress looks great on you! I would have never thought of using cookie cutters. I have done batik and find it fun and sometimes frustrating. I noticed your wax didn't crack when you were moving it. So I suspect there is more than just bees and paraffin wax in it so it is possible you were supposed to just scrape off the wax. I have only ever used waxed from an artist that has their own formula and it has always cracked.
Could be possible, it was quite unfortunate the manual was not included in the box, so I just went with the batik instructions from my other beeswax book...
@@MijnWolden The book would have been nice to have but I think you did great with what you knew.
Your dress came out really cute! And it looks great on you!! Have fun on your vacation!
Thank you ☺️
The dinos are so cute!!!
(Does it count if I say my favourites are chickens-- )
Yes. It counts. I have seen their legs. They are dinosaurs
The English pronunciation of batik is the same as the Dutch - or at least that's what I've always heard in Australia.
Yay 😁
Ok, I am a little bit worried about you absorbing dye through your skin when you put your bare hands in the dye pot when you are not using natural dye stuffs. I’m finding out more about how toxic some chemical dyes are. So, please protect yourself when you are working with chemical dyes. I want to enjoy your chaos goblin adventures for a long time. And, the dress looks fabulous on you. We are supposed to have tummies! harpingJanet
The chances of my dyeing with anything else than natural dyestuffs in the Future are very slim however, I don't have other 50 year old boxes lying around somewhere 😉
@@MijnWolden I’m glad to hear that! Though who knows what else may come your way for your further adventures and exploration!
Waarom niet een strijkijzer en keukenpapier om de was te verwijderen?
Omdat het boek dat ik heb iets anders zei 🤷
looks a good try
Thank you ☺️