Scouring Plant Fibers: Preparing Cotton and Linen for Natural Dyeing

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🌿 Welcome to our comprehensive tutorial on preparing cotton fabric for natural dyeing through the essential process of scouring! If you're eager to achieve vibrant and long-lasting colors with your natural dyes, this step-by-step guide is your ticket to success.
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🔍 Understanding Scouring: Discover the significance of scouring in the natural dyeing process and how it affects color absorption and fastness.
🛁 Preparation and Safety: Learn about the necessary tools and materials for effective scouring, and ensure you're following best practices to maintain a safe and environmentally-friendly process.
⚙️ Step-by-Step Scouring: Follow along as we guide you through the step-by-step procedure of scouring cotton fabric. We'll cover each crucial stage in detail.
🔬 Science Behind Scouring: Gain insight into the science behind scouring, including the removal of natural oils, waxes, and impurities from the fabric to create an optimal surface for dye absorption.
🔢 Measurements and Ratios: Get precise measurements and ratios for scouring agents, such as soda ash or washing soda, to achieve consistent and impressive results every time.
🎨 Achieving Beautiful Natural Colors: Once your fabric is scoured correctly, it's ready to take on the brilliance of natural dyes.
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[@debfergusson6284]

Full of information
I use my top loading washing machine by setting it to just do the first part of the cycle ie fill with hot water, wash then stop, then leave overnight before the rest of the cycle the next day. This seems to work well judging by the yellowness that comes out, and the cleaness of the pre-used fabrics

[@TextileIndie]

Good tip, thanks for sharing. I'll give this a try.

[@VikingMakery]

I've always found scouring linen to be difficult. I'll give your method a try!

[@TextileIndie]

Let me know how it works for you!

[@anitajackson3101]

I read that Arm & Hammer has a product that can be substituted for soda ash. I’m going to try dying cotton rope - I have started making bowls, etc from cotton rope and I saw a lady make a blue and white striped bowl - she dyed half of her rope blue and it looked really nice. I want to use natural dyes rather than Rit or others that contain chemicals that are harmful. I’m looking forward to learning how to dye with plants.

[@TextileIndie]

That sounds like a fun project! I would love to see it when you're done. Come back and let me know how the Arm and Hammer works.

[@WorkingProgress17]

Rit claims that their dyes are non-toxic and I have yet to find a source that cites harmful chemical in Rit Dye. Do you know specifically what toxic chemicals are in Rit Dye?

[@mac-mb6tc]

Hi..Great info...one question..where did you get your overalls? Really nice

[@TextileIndie]

Thanks! It’s an apron from Amazon. Unfortunately the vendor no longer sells this style😞

[@jessicag630]

7:40 Does this formula work for any type of fabric?
8:10 Is soda ash sdium carbonate? I read somewhere that you can use NaOH (lye). Is that true? Is the weight of NaOH to be used the same as soda ash?
Thank you.

[@TextileIndie]

This formula works for plant based fibers, like cotton and linen. I've never used lye so I'm not sure about that.

[@jenniferlawson3847]

Great video! Where did you get the detergent strips? I've never seen those before.

[@TextileIndie]

Thanks! I found them on Amazon as I was trying to avoid plastic bottles of soaps. Super handy.

[@jenniferlawson3847]

@@TextileIndie Thanks! I'll have to look for those...so much more convenient too!!

[@dianeovenden]

I’m trying to find out how they would have naturally bleached flax 4000 years ago do you have any idea?

[@TextileIndie]

Hmmm, I'm guessing, the sun. Here's a blog post about Egyptian Flax:
sheeptoshawl.com/the-flax-of-egypt/

[@anitajackson3101]

Where do you find soda ash?

[@TextileIndie]

Everything I used for this project is linked here:
www.textileindie.com/how-to-scour-cotton-fabric/
What are you planning dye? I'd love to hear.

[@rockshot100]

Any grocery store that sells laundry soap, it is labeled Washing Soda.