Textile Dyeing with Natural Pigments

Overview

“We will discover how to prepare a fructose-based organic indigo bath, how to reveal the valuable blue color in a fiber and how to obtain different intensities of blue with the number of dives and oxidation times. ”

In this video lesson Anabel Torres addresses the topic: Dye with indigo, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Dyeing with Natural Pigments. Add color to your fibers and fabrics by using sustainable methods.

Partial transcription of the video

“Dyeing with indigo Now, I'll show you how to dye with one of my favorite pigments, indigo. Indigo, this stone here, can be extracted from different plants. One of the most common plants from which indigo is extracted is Indigofera tinctoria. They collect the plants, crush them and soak them to ferment them. The movement and the fermentation turns the water from green to blue. Then, they filter this water to get a blue paste which they use to make shapes like stones or little tablets, that they then pulverize to use them as a pigment. The main characteristic is that they contain indican. Jus...”

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Course summary for: Textile Dyeing with Natural Pigments

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (1649)
• 47401 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 37m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing