#Textile Dyeing

[everythingandaves]

okay so last week i posted about a 1970s fabric dyeing book

i'm going through the scanned pages and the recipes are very neat

this lavender & rosemary recipe will probably be gorgeous, and you can't go wrong with a classic madder red

i'm OBSESSED with the idea of using dandelions!!! its already too hot in my area for them to grow, but i will wait for next april

this fall i'll test the marigolds! they've naturalized in my yard and they practically overtake the grass, so they won't mind

we planted a peach tree back in 2021 and i have never heard of using peach leaves for dye!!! this one i will do ASAP since the squirrels ate all of our peaches this year :(

there are a ton more recipes in this book, so i'll link a part 2 when it's posted!

[thefelineofaveb]

shibori dyeing part 1 ✨

[san-sews-seams]

A dying experiment to see if I can salvage a wearable muslin that looks like I've murdered a 70's couch and am wearing its skin as a suit!

(This has been sitting in my drafts for about a year now. Since I'm dyeing next week, it seemed like a good time to post!)

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[chemicalbrothers212]

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[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Child's Sock from Egypt, c.250-350 CE: this colorful sock is nearly 1,700 years old

This sock was discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus. It was likely created for a child during the late Roman period, c.250-350 CE.

Similar-looking socks from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period have also been found at several other sites throughout Egypt; these socks often have colorful, striped patterns with divided toes, and they were crafted out of wool using a technique known as nålbinding.

Above: a similar child's sock from Antinoöpolis, c.250-350 CE

The sock depicted above was created during the same period, and it was found in a midden heap (an ancient rubbish pit) in the city of Antinoöpolis. A multispectral imaging analysis of this sock yielded some interesting results back in 2018, as this article explains:

... analysis revealed that the sock contained seven hues of wool yarn woven together in a meticulous, stripy pattern. Just three natural, plant-based dyes—madder roots for red, woad leaves for blue and weld flowers for yellow—were used to create the different color combinations featured on the sock, according to Joanne Dyer, lead author of the study.

In the paper, she and her co-authors explain that the imaging technique also revealed how the colors were mixed to create hues of green, purple and orange: In some cases, fibers of different colors were spun together; in others, individual yarns went through multiple dye baths.

Such intricacy is pretty impressive, considering that the ancient sock is both “tiny” and “fragile."

Given its size and orientation, the researchers believe it may have been worn on a child’s left foot.

Above: another child's sock from Al Fayyum, c.300-500 CE

The ancient Egyptians employed a single-needle looping technique, often referred to as nålbindning, to create their socks. Notably, the approach could be used to separate the big toe and four other toes in the sock—which just may have given life to the ever-controversial socks-and-sandals trend.

Sources & More Info:

Manchester Museum: Child's Sock from Oxyrhynchus

British Museum: Sock from Antinoupolis

Royal Ontario Museum: Sock from Al Fayyum

Smithsonian Magazine: 1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion

The Guardian: Imaging Tool Unravels Secrets of Child's Sock from Ancient Egypt

PLOS ONE Journal: A Multispectral Imaging Approach Integrated into the Study of Late Antique Textiles from Egypt

National Museums Scotland: The Lost Sock

[allianceorganicsdigital]

Dyeing is a process that adds colour to textiles. The most common dyes are available as liquids, pastes, or powders. Dyeing is used to create a variety of colours, including natural dyes such as madder and indigo, and synthetic dyes such as those used in paints and textile printing.

[killyridols]

agnes (agnes pelton 1881-1961) by aili schmeltz, 2024, thread, acrylic, & fabric dye on canvas + muslin over panel, 96 × 72 inches

[itscolossal]

The Oldest Example of a Prestigious Red Dye Was Found in a Rare 3,800-Year-Old Textile

[blue-nebraska]

quilt-inspired barnyard bandanas block printed with natural dyes 🌱 (eucalyptus, madder, and weld)

ID: three photos of bandanas lying on the grass. they are each patterned with quilt squares and prints of strawberries, fish, snakes, and mushrooms, and printed in dark brown, red, and tan.

[everythingandaves]

so i'm back with more dye recipes from this cool 1970s dye book

it's really interesting that any color of flower still makes yellow dye!

ACORNS!!!!! literally everybody loves an acorn. great to know what to do with the thousands that fall in my yard every fall.

we love a recycling queen

oñion

i've only included the cute ones but there are some absolutely wack ones that i will include in a few days!!!

[theliteralmoon]

Beginnings of my pride blanket, ft my own naturally dyed yarn 🧶

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[othmeralia]

Italian Dyer's Notebook

Autograph manuscript, circa 1856-1866

This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866, suggesting that the notebook was used and added to over a period of time. The work includes more than 500 numbered and itemized recipes for dyes. Recipes are illustrated with more than 800 wool and fabric samples adhered to the pages. The samples range in colors from shades of brown to vivid fuchsia, turquoise, and mustard. The samples include fabrics of wool, felt, and cotton, as well as raw wool and coils of yarn. Ingredients listed include mud, urine, arsenic, and vitriol. Pages 192-219 contain longer descriptions of dying processes, one attributed to Giacomo Udinese and another to Cesare Bizzi.

Check it out on our digital collections site.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Indigo Shibori

[ironspine]