Naturally Dying Cloth in the Early 19th Century || One Woman is Twice Two Soldiers, Episode 8
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- In today's episode, we're looking into an 1815 dying manual and learn some 19th century natural dye recipes.
A Practical Treatise on Dyeing, and Callicoe Printing: archive.org/de...
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This might bore those who don't like reading how-to manuals or recipes, but this is right up my alley! ❤
I knew it probably wouldn't be my most viewed video for this reason, but no one had sifted through all the recipes and actually put something comprehensive together before so I figured it would be of use to somebody. I'm planning on doing a 'hands on' video with these recipes at some point but I want to try ALL of it, so I need to get my hands on some sheep dung or cow blood beforehand so it'll be an extensive planning operation.
@KatelynKearns Great idea, looking forward to that!
Well I have 5 Jersey cows, I could experiment, LOL I can't imagine the smell though. Very interesting stuff as usual!
If you do, let me know how it goes! I'm planning a full video on trying out all these dyes but it'll be an extensive planning process as I'll also need to get some blood and dung for the experimentation.
Thanks for the reminder of why I cheat and use rit dye on fabrics. I could imagine the complaints my apartmnt manager would get if I used some of the natural dye procedures you just gave...
I don't blame you at all! I do prefer Dharma Trading's dyes to RIT (LOTS more colors and more economical because you use less dye!) but there are definite advantages to synthetic dyes.
Hey, almost every new natural dye probably started with a ‘color happy goblin’ who wondered what cool color they might get if they boiled up some of that leftover ______?
That's very true! It was all figured out by experimentation and "I wonder if...."
@@KatelynKearns foods too… must have been some very adventurous soul who tried some of our everyday foods for the first time!
@@archervine8064 Absolutely!
Think I'll stick to modern dye, but it's so interesting, chaos goblins of the world united. ❤
Modern dye is nice for a lot of reasons!
How were they able to tell the temperature of the dye bath?
They often gave ranges so I doubt they were fully measuring the temperatures every time. I know I don't. A lot of instructions were "just under boiling" or "boiling" which are easy to keep track of without a thermometer but there were thermometers by the 18th century-I don't think they were very widespread, but they existed.