Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles

Overview

“Now you will learn how to make lacquer pigments using sodium carbonate to obtain a translucent pigment.”

In this video lesson Anabel Torres addresses the topic: Lacquer Pigment with Sodium Carbonate, which is part of the Domestika online course: Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles. Learn to extract color directly from nature and make organic powder dyes to paint textiles and much more.

Partial transcription of the video

“Lacquer pigment with sodium carbonate In this lesson we are going to make a recipe to obtain a more translucent and less opaque pigment. For this procedure I am going to use brazilwood, what is this crust, and sodium carbonate together with alum. Most of the steps are exactly the same, there are only a couple of variants in the order and we will dilute the alum before so that the effervescence is more controlled. Here I already have prepared a brazilwood dye, which has 3 g of Brazilwood in 200 ml of water. I left it soaking overnight and then I put it to boil for 30 minutes. The next step i...”

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Course summary for: Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles

• Level: Beginner
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• 4915 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 52m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fine Arts, Painting, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Textile Printing