Natural Indigo Dyeing Fructose Vat How To Video
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- The fructose vat is a fast acting vat with a limited shelf life. This vat is a great project for beginners or even for kids, with supervision and safety measures taken. When choosing fabric keep in mind if using wool or silk too hot of a vat will shock the fabric. The vat used in the video is a one two three vat and the recipe has been modified from Liz Spencer’s, The Dogwood Dyer, recipe.
The one two three vat includes:
One part indigo
Two parts calcium hydroxide
Three parts fructose
Products Used In Video:
Stony Creek Colors Natural indigo powder 25% (45 grams used in video)
Calcium hydroxide
Fructose
Buy the entire kit here: (dye.farm/produ...)
Supplies:
Dust mask or respirator
Goggles
Gloves
Scale
Vessels for weighing materials
5 gallon bucket for the dyeing vat
5 gallon bucket for rinsing
Hot plate (optional)
Rocks or marbles for mixing up indigo powder into paste (optional)
Eye Dropper or pipette (optional)
Scoured fabric/garments/material that has been wetted out (soaked and wrung out)
Need a refresher on a part of the video? Use the time index below.
1:45 Safety Equipment / Supplies
3:00 Creating Your Vat
11:18 Testing Your Vat For Dyeing
15:51 How to Dye With Your Vat
20:41 Dyeing Protein Fibers
22:57 Dyeing Results and Final Notes
Thanks to Kelsie Doty and Engage Cornell for filming this video.
Thanks to Tommy and the Ohs for providing intro and outro music “On yer own”
Ive made a vat in the wrongest way possible. Early on, i put a broken bottle of saxon blue indigo into it (thought it was the spare pot i just set down.). I kept it out in the cold, added old apple sauce, indigo hair powder, boiled roselle seed pod juice, some old urine... my biggest setback was being too cautious with my home grown indigo pigment. I never dyed past pale blue!!! This week feels special! 🎉
Great tutorial. Very well explained
thank you very much this tutorial is very informative thank you again greetings from egypt
Such a great video - I spent today creating my vat - using your instructions. Very clear (& successful) thank you. J x
There are some indigo dye pits in Nigeria that are 500 plus years old founded in 1498, the Kofar Mata pits are old as heck! Some of the pits have been in near constant use for generations!
C LEE so amazing!
This is sooo helpful. Great details thanks .
What a lovely video! Thank you so much. I was curious about when you said dying multiple times. How long do you let the piece of fabric sit before re-dipping? Do you wait for them to be dry before that point?
Thank you for such a thorough and well-explained video! Is there any reason one can't substitute soda ash for the calcium hydroxide, since they both create an alkaline environment? Have you ever experimented with that? Thanks!
Do indigo dyed fibers need mordanted? I’m a bulk dyer…would a trash can be a good option?
This is fantastic. Thank you! I just wondered how long you need to wait between each dip? Do you need to let the fabric dry and then redip, or can you dip it after a few minutes?
I'm having trouble with a batch made from wild indigo. It turned brown instead of blue. HELP!
could honey be used as the sugar in this recipe?
Love the way you explaining, thanks
The fructose vat…can I make it and leave it alone for days at a time? Can you add more indigo for a darker color or is it really all about how many times you dip?
I have a question. I've made my fructose vat and dyed a lot of fabrics in it. Now the vat liquid level is getting low - so do i now add more water, fructose, calx and indigo or do I just use up the remaining liquid? I want to continue dyeing some larger pieces. Thanks. -Lucy
The natural indigo I bought is green in colour ,can that be used to create vat similarly?
Thanks for the video. When revive the vat do you need to reheat the vat? If so how do you reheat the plastic pale? Thanks!
Also, can you reuse this dye mixture, say store it a few weeks before using again? :) thanks in advance, Sarah!
asdfghjuliet if you have a tight lid on it and then reheat, yes. Most likely you will need more reduction agent (fructose) first though!
can we use table sugar instead of pure fructose for commercial purposes dyeing?
no, you would be better of using other fruit based sugars, like orange peels, jaggery, etc.
@@sarahbellos1145 Which one would be better for long lasting results??
I use honey because it is readily available to me.
Hi.. do you know how to use indigo paste?
Can you dye blue jeans again with this. Say I wanted to make a lighter pair a bit darker. Will one dip do the trick?
Casey Eberlin I would do at least 3, probably more. You can rinse and dry a small portion after a few dips and decide if it is dark enough for you. Denim is made a bit differently (only warp yarns are dyed, fill/inside yarns stay white) in commercial manufacturing. So, your outcome will look a bit different but should still work well!
Great video, thanks! You say it is a 1:2:3 method but I presume you will use less quantities for a smaller Vat and more for a bigger Vat? How much Indigo did you use in this 5 Gal, weight wise?
Erika Cronje instructions written out are on our website
Will this also work if I'm using fresh indigo leaves instead of powder? How do you make a paste with the leaves?
Hi I followed this really great process from Ninja Chicken re getting a powder from your fresh leaves...quite a process but very satisfying knowing I'd grown it! Julia x
Thanks for this amazing video how to do a indigo vat. But your german is not correct, if you like i can translate. Best, Nina