#Margaret Byrd: Color Quest

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Lichen is a natural way to create various colors for your textile and craft projects depending on the type you forage and how you process it. Beard, wolf & lungwort (usnea, letharia vulpina & lobaria pulmonaria) are great lichen to start with since they are often blown away from their host and more easily collected from the forest floor. This tutorial will show the boiling water method of making dye from each type of lichen, as well as the resulting color swatch samples (wool, silk, bamboo & cotton).

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Lichen of PNW

1:32 Lichen varieties

3:53 Latin names

4:13 Ammonia method

4:55 Mordant

5:37 Foraging lichen

6:24 Lichen Dyes tutorial resource

6:52 Processing methods

7:47 Rock beard lichen

8:44 IFFS lichen dye samples

12:18 Boiling water method

13:58 Dyed fiber samples

15:25 Wrap up

16:48 Sneak peek of next tutorial

18:01 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Lichen - beard, wolf & lungwort

Pot with lid

Scissors

Spoon

Strainer

Textile

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Ice dyeing is a fun way to create colorful patterns on fiber using flowers from your garden. Plus, it is a simple technique that you can do to capture a slice of summertime color. This tutorial will show you how to ice dye with whole flowers, as well as the resulting tie dye effect on silk gift bags pretreated in different mordants.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro - Ice dyeing with flowers

1:49 Dye flower fun

3:26 Flower pickin'

4:08 Silk fiber

5:07 Frozen flowers

5:52 Ice bundle build

8:29 Midway thaw

9:13 Reveal

11:37 Ice dye results

13:09 Wrap up

14:13 Sneak peek of next tutorial

15:00 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Dye flowers - coreopsis, sulfur cosmos, scabiosa/pincushion, geranium, marigold

Shears

Ice

Strainer

Pot

Mordant - alum acetate & gallo tannin used in video

Textile of choice - silk featured

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Soy milk is an easy way to to create prints on fiber when using natural dyes that are tannin-rich. The protein of soy milk is an organic binder that invites stronger colors that last longer, so you can use soy milk to 'paint' one-of-a-kind patterns and whimsical designs on textile. This video tutorial will show you how to make prints with soy milk and dye with black tea on cotton fiber.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Soy milk prints

1:10 Soy milk as a binder

2:42 Kitchen dyes

3:23 Supplies

5:32 Fiber prep

6:32 Printing pad

9:14 Soy milk printing

11:42 Tea dye

13:10 Dyeing printed fiber

14:03 Results

15:19 Wrap up

15:49 Sneak peek of next tutorial

16:29 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Textile - cotton shown in video

Soy milk

Tea - black leaf shown in video

Measuring cup

Measuring spoon

Pot with lid

Tongs

Bowl

Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.

Printing pad

Pins, tacks or painter's tape

Scrap cloth for barrier

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Ice dyeing is a fun way to create colorful patterns on fiber using natural color. Freezing fresh or exhaust dyes into ice cubes welcomes a diffused watercolor palette. Adding a layer of dried dye flowers to the frozen mix will invite punches of vivid hues on top. The combination is a lovely way to create tie dye effects to your favorite textiles. Plus, with the help of some common household products, colors can be shifted to expand the rainbow of hues. This tutorial will show you how to ice dye with frozen exhaust dyes & dried flowers, shift color with pH modifiers as well as the resulting effect on cotton.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro - Ice dyeing with exhaust

1:22 Ice & natural color

2:37 Exhaust dyes

2:57 Making ice

3:38 Cotton fiber

4:20 Color modifiers

4:53 Studio set-up

5:34 Ice cube build

7:30 Midway thaw

8:27 Exhaust reveal

12:18 Dried flowers

13:42 Second ice build

15:41 Final thaw results

18:11 Ice dye comparison

19:58 Wrap up

20:48 Sneak peek of next tutorial

21:19 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Exhaust dyes - madder, sulfur cosmos, marigold, logwood & hollyhock

Dried dye matter - calendula, dyer's chamomile, yarrow, scabiosa/pincushion, hollyhock, madder root, logwood

Ice

Ice molds

Strainer

Pot

Modifiers - citric acid, washing soda & ferrous sulfate used in video

Mordant - alum acetate used in video

Textile of choice - cotton featured

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Soy milk is a natural binder that can turn colorful earth pigments into a wonderful paint to create printed designs on fiber. The protein of soy milk allows minerals like ochre, umber and red oxide to adhere to textile to expand your natural palette with the rich hues found beneath your feet. This video tutorial will show you how to make homemade soy milk to prepare textile and earth pigment paint to print a one-of-a-kind pattern on cotton fiber.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Earth pigment soy paint

1:29 Colorful minerals

2:32 Natural Earth Paint

4:09 Soy milk binder

6:52 How to make soy milk

9:23 Fiber prep

10:40 How to make soy pigment paint

12:19 Printing pad

15:44 Earth pigment printing

17:21 Results

20:59 Wrap up

21:26 Sneak peek of next tutorial

22:17 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Textile - cotton shown in video

Earth pigments

Soy milk

Measuring cup

Measuring spoon

Tongs

Bowl

Whisk

Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.

Printing pad

Pins, tacks or painter's tape

Scrap cloth for barrier

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Lobster mushroom (hypomyces lactifluorum) is a wonderful fungi used to create various natural colors for your textile and craft projects. It brings a range of pink, peach, orange and purple to protein fibers like wool & silk. Lobster mushrooms are pH sensitive, so you can expand your natural dye palette by adding household items like vinegar and baking soda to shift the color to an acidic or alkaline bath. If you are a fungi fanatic with a love of foraging, the lobster mushroom is ready to be picked! This tutorial will show you how to make dye from this mushroom, shift colors with pH modifiers, as well as the resulting color swatch samples on wool yarn.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Lobster mushroom

1:29 Lobster dye - IFFS 2022

2:27 Characteristics

4:31 pH sensitivity

4:50 Fiber prep

6:33 Ratios

7:16 Dye prep

8:25 Making skeins

9:49 Making dye

10:42 pH shift

13:18 Fiber results

15:39 Wrap up

17:48 Sneak peek of next tutorial

18:22 Bloopers

SUPPLY LIST

Lobster mushrooms

pH modifiers - lemon juice, vinegar, cream of tartar, baking soda, washing soda

pH neutral soap

Scale

Measuring spoon

Nut milk bag, cheesecloth or muslin

Pot with lid

Spoon

Tongs

Textile - wool yarn shown in video

[bumblebeeappletree]

Eucalyptus and madder root are fantastic natural dye sources for botanical printing, and thanks to Scarabajo's Winter Wishes Kit, eco-printing has never been easier. The kit includes most everything needed to print a gorgeous design of green stars and red speckles on a tea towel that will make your kitchen pop with natural color. This tutorial will work through the step-by-step instructions from the kit and show the amazing results.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro - Eco-printing kit

1:24 Natural dye kits

3:47 Winter Wishes kit

7:46 Fiber prep

10:29 Design creation

11:52 Fold & bind

14:20 Steam

15:32 Unbind & reveal

16:32 Fiber finishes

16:40 Repurpose

17:33 Wrap up

18:11 Sneak peek of next tutorial

18:46 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Winter Wishes Natural Dye Kit

Pot with lid

Aluminum foil

pH neutral dish soap

Tongs

WHERE TO BUY NATURAL DYE KIT:

https://www.scarabajo.com/collections...

ABOUT MY CHANNEL

Color Quest is a creative channel where we explore the wide world of natural color! If you love using organic materials in all of your arts & crafts projects, join me as I share tutorials and vlogs on how to find and create a rainbow of color from plants and the earth they live in.

I'm passionate about natural dyes and pigments which I use extensively in my art practice, so I'm thrilled to share my curiosity, excitement and knowledge of nature's palette with you.

xoxo - Margaret, aka Byrdie

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Welcome to Baja California Sur in Mexico where the aloe vera plant is bursting with natural color. Harvesting fronds to chop & soak in the sun will welcome subtle shades of a soft pink & peach in a simple solar dye process. Add a tie dye effect by binding fiber in a kumo shibori technique and shift colors with a pH modifier of baking soda. Such a fun and easy way to capture local color while on the road! This tutorial will show you how make a solar dye with aloe vera & tie a kumo binded cotton napkin, as well as the resulting patterned design & color on various fibers including silk/nylon and cotton ribbons.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Baja aloe vera

1:24 Solar dyeing on the road

4:19 How to make aloe vera dye

5:21 Ribbon prep

6:06 Day 1 color

6:40 How to tie kumo shibori

13:36 Day 2 color

15:22 Day 3 color

16:56 Alkaline bath

18:24 Results

22:00 Wrap up

22:41 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Aloe vera

Knife

Cutting board

Glass jar

Rubberbands

Baking soda

Mordant - alum, aluminum acetate

Textile - silk/rayon and cotton shown in video

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Ice dyeing is a fun way to create tie dye patterns on fiber using natural colors from flowers. Plus, it is a simple technique that you can do while traveling to capture a slice of nature from the landscapes you visit. Join me on a trip to The Netherlands where I forage for hollyhock flowers at my artist friend's studio in Den Haag to experiment with ice dyeing for the very first time! Take a studio tour with Tessa Maagdenberg before we see what beauty these summer blooms will bring. This tutorial will show you how to ice dye with hollyhock, as well as the resulting tie dye effect on cotton and silk nylon ribbon.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro - Hollyhock of The Netherlands

1:21 Studio tour with Tessa

7:23 Foraging hollyhock

10:08 Ice dyeing

13:04 Supplies

14:16 Fiber prep

15:30 Ice bundle build

19:04 Reveal

21:14 Ice dye results

22:50 Wrap up

24:01 Sneak peek of next tutorial

24:41 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Hollyhock flowers

Shears

Ice

Strainer

Pot

Mordant - alum acetate used in video

Textile of choice - cotton & silk nylon ribbon featured

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The combination of soy & lime (slaked/pickling) is an amazing way to make a resist paste for printing designs on textile. With the help of a cold tannin-rich dye source like tea, you can bring warm natural tones to the fiber while keeping the white undertones as part of the overall pattern. It is reverse printing at its best! Join me as I create soy lime resist paste from scratch & make a polka dot design on cotton using black tea as the natural dye color.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Soy lime resist printing

1:17 Soy lime paste

2:35 Cold tannin-rich dye

3:54 Soy powder - TVP

5:03 Slaked lime - calcium hydroxide

5:31 Paste recipe

6:25 How to make soy lime paste

8:35 Fiber prep

10:03 Printing set-up

11:29 Soy lime resist printing

15:14 Cold tea dye

15:29 Unexpected surprises

18:10 Results

20:18 Wrap up

21:15 Sneak peek of next tutorial

21:59 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Textile - cotton shown in video

Soy powder - TVP shown in video

Lime (slaked/pickling) - calcium hydroxide

Tea - black leaf exhaust dye shown in video

Scale

Bowls

Measuring cup

Whisk

Pot with lid

Tongs

Spoon

Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.

Printing pad

Pins, tacks or painter's tape

Scrap cloth for barrier

White vinegar

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Dyer's polypore (phaeolus schweinitzii) is a wonderful mushroom used to create various natural colors for your textile and craft projects. Known as a fantastic 'starter' dye mushroom, it brings a range of deep yellows and toasty browns on protein fibers like wool & silk. By adding iron, you can invite greens and darker shades to expand your natural dye palette. If you are a fungi fanatic with a love of foraging, the dyer's polypore is ready to be picked! This tutorial will show you a stove top method of making dye from this mushroom, as well as the resulting color swatch samples (wool, cotton, bamboo & silk) with alum and ferrous sulfate mordants.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Dyer's polypore

1:30 Fungi dyes - IFFS 2022

3:14 Foraged mushroom

3:49 Miriam Rice

4:25 Latin names

5:25 Fiber options

6:01 Ratios

7:21 Fiber prep - scour

7:56 Fiber prep - mordant

9:43 Mushroom prep

10:35 Mordant process

14:48 Mushroom dye

17:09 Fiber results

17:44 Wrap up

18:39 Sneak peek of next tutorial

19:25 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Dyer's polypore mushrooms

Alum

Ferrous sulfate (iron)

Washing soda

pH neutral soap

Scale

Measuring spoon

Pot with lid

Spoon

Tongs

Gloves

Textile - wool yarn, silk, cotton & bamboo shown in video

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The citric acid in lemon is a natural way to create printed designs using a discharge technique. The combination of iron & tannin is an amazing way to make darker colors that can be gently removed with the bleaching strength of lemon juice. Join me as I repurpose rooibos tea for dyeing cotton, sadden the color with iron & make a reverse polka dot design with the help of citric acid.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Lemon discharge printing

1:39 Tannin in natural dyeing

4:08 W.O.F.

4:33 Iron water

6:28 Fiber prep

7:24 Tea tannin dye

8:34 How to handle iron

10:01 Iron bath

12:38 Printing set-up

15:21 Lemon discharge

17:12 Thickeners

18:29 Printing with lemon

20:15 Final steps

21:57 Results & wrap up

23:22 Sneak peek of next tutorial

24:07 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Textile - cotton shown in video

Tea - rooibos dye shown in video

Iron water - ferrous sulfate powder

Lemon juice or citric acid

Calcium carbonate - chalk

Thickener - gum tragacanth shown in video

Bowls

Measuring spoons

Pot with lid

Tongs

Spoon

Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.

Painter's tape

Scrap cloth for blotting

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The combination of iron & tannin is an amazing way to make dark colors for printing designs on textile. With the help of a tannin-rich dye source like tea, you can bring deep natural tones to the fiber while keeping the warm neutral background hues. Join me as I brew rooibos tea for dyeing cotton & make a polka dot design using iron water (ferrous sulfate).

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Iron & tea tannin printing

1:28 Iron + tannin

3:08 Tannin sources

5:29 Rooibos tea dye

8:04 Iron water

10:28 Printing set-up

11:52 Thickeners

13:00 Printing with iron

15:43 Post print prep

17:19 Cold tea soak

17:46 Results

18:58 Wrap up

19:14 Sneak peek of next tutorial

19:39 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Textile - cotton shown in video

Tea - rooibos dye shown in video

Iron water - ferrous sulfate powder

Sodium carbonate - washing soda or soda ash

Bowls

Measuring spoons

Pot with lid

Tongs

Spoon

Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.

Painter's tape

Scrap cloth for blotting

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The fungi world of mushrooms & lichen can hold hidden natural colors for your textile and craft projects that are truly amazing! Join me at the 2022 International Fungi & Fiber Symposium (IFFS) in Port Townsend, Washington, to learn more about these incredible organic treasures for the dye pot. Trust me - you will be out foraging for fungi before you know it!

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Mushroom & lichen dyes

1:41 International Fungi & Fiber Symposium (IFFS)

4:41 Class 1 - Mushroom pigments - inks & paints

7:09 Class 2 - Lobster dyes

8:37 Class 3 - Green dyes

11:16 Fungi foray - Fort Townsend

14:32 Class 4 - Purple dyes

16:54 Lichen dyes

17:11 Class 5 - Dye pot luck

18:07 Fungi dye ring

18:30 Fungi foray table

19:01 Thank you IFFS!

20:30 Sneak peek of next tutorial

21:14 Blooper

MUSIC:

Playground Fun

by Ahjay Stelino

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Ukelele Song

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Mer-Ka-Ba

by Jesse Gallagher

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#naturalcolor #organic #artsandcrafts #naturaldye #tutorial #diy

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If you are lucky enough to have an oak tree in your midst, you can add rich beige & golden browns to your dye pot with acorns. After the nuts fall from the tree, forage them to create a tannin rich dye to use for coloring or a mordant. You can make darker hues with iron water to bring gray, olive green and even black into your color palette. This tutorial will show you how to brew dye from acorns to use in a shibori technique & create a beautiful resist design with iron water. You will see the resulting itajime design on cotton and color swatch samples (cotton & silk) of the acorn dye itself.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Acorn

0:58 Foraging for acorns

4:54 How to make acorn dye

6:12 How to fold itajime shibori design

7:15 First resist dip - acorn dye

8:10 Second resist dip - iron water

9:27 Unwrap shibori result

10:29 Color samples on cotton & silk

10:56 Wrap up

14:18 Sneak peek of next tutorial

15:41 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Acorns

Towel

Hammer

Pot with lid

Bowl

Measuring cup

Strainer

Spoon

Glass jars

Storage container

Clothes pins

Tongs

Iron water/Iron powder

Measuring spoon for iron

Gloves

Textile of choice

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Wrapping gifts for the holiday with naturally hand-dyed textile is a unique and environmentally friendly way to add an extra personal touch to any present. Brewing dye from compostable food scraps like avocado skins & stones can create subtle organic colors on fabrics that are easy to make right in your kitchen. Adding a splash of soy milk or iron water to the fabric and tying a simple shibori technique (Ne-Maki) brings a playful abstract design to the wrapping that is sure to dazzle. Plus, it’s a fun way to include kids in a creative holiday project of recycling natural resources and celebrating the art of mindful giving during the holiday season. This tutorial will show you how to create Ne-Maki shibori and dip to color modify avocado skin/stone dye on fiber, as well as demonstrate a furoshiki technique for gift wrapping.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Avocado dyed shibori gift wrap

2:40 Step 1 - How to tie Ne-Maki shibori

4:15 Step 2 - How to color modify with soy milk & iron water

5:39 Step 3 - How to make avocado skin/stone dye

7:05 Dye process

8:13 Avocado stone & soy milk result

8:26 Avocado skin & iron water result

8:40 Furoshiki gift wrap tie technique

9:29 Wrap-up

13:02 Sneak peak of next video tutorial

13:56 Cookin' Color Digital Workshop - paid course

15:05 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Fiber for gift wrap - cotton shown in video

Rubber bands

Stones

Soy milk

Bowl

Iron water

Iron water bowl

Iron water measuring spoon

Gloves

Avocado skin & stones

Baking soda

Measuring spoon

Measuring cup

Pot with lid

Tongs

Strainer

Spoon