- Make pink dye using strawberries, cherries, red raspberries, or grand fir bark.
- Create brown dye using dandelion roots, oak bark, walnut husks and hulls, tea bags, coffee, acorns, or goldenrod shoots.
- Create orange dye with onion skin, carrot roots, butternut seed husks, or gold lichen.
- Combine materials to make a stronger color, or a mixed color: X Research source Seeds, leaves, and stems can be harvested as soon as they grow in.
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To get the best colors, fruit needs to be fully ripe, nuts need to be mature, flowers should be in full bloom and near the end of their life cycle. Gather ripe plant materials to make natural dyes. Use a very small amount, and as with copper, don't use a pot that you will make food in and work in a well-ventilated area.
Use a small amount of tin for clear, color-fast results.Copper is toxic to consume, so don't use a pot that you use for cooking and work in a well-ventilated area. Make a copper bath with a few old pennies (from before 1982) in boiling water, or buy copper sulfate online. Use copper to give your end result a greenish tint.To create an iron bath, boil a few old nails in a large pot of water. Iron is an effective mordant but will darken the end result with a brownish tint.Using too much alum can make the fibers sticky. Use 1⁄ 4 pound (0.11 kg) of alum in a warm water bath for every 1 pound (0.45 kg) of material you want to dye. You can find it in some supermarkets, craft stores, or online. Alum is the most readily available mordant.
Use different mordants depending on the result you want: X Research source Soak the clothes for about 20 minutes in a stockpot full of water and mordant at a low simmer, then turn off the heat and allow the clothes and water to cool. A mordant is a mixture of a mineral and water that allows the dye to adhere to the fibers. We will definitely be back as the boys have come home really excited to tell their Dad what they did.Soak the clothes in a mordant for 20 minutes.
The facilities were clean, nicely decorated with examples of the craft work everywhere (great for ideas). The boys managed 2 pots each during their session choosing different methods and spent a bit of time exploring & asking questions about the process, the kiln and the other activities such as slime, which Emily will be introducing soon.Įmilys approach with us was hands off as the boys were clearly getting stuck in but she was there to guide and support as needed. This all takes time and as someone who likes to make things myself, it can often go unappreciated by those who have no idea of the time and care these things take. The pots are air dried first and then glazed to make them shiny, then put in the kiln to fire.
As it was quiet when we were there we were able to ask Emily lots of questions. I think the pot prices are fair & incorporate the work which is put into them once customers leave. The boys don't normally sit for too long but they were quickly engrossed in their work. On arrival, Emily greeted us and got us set up with paints etc and we set off choosing pots & putting aprons on. Easy to find and parked on a side road round the back. Brought my 2 boys here aged 5 and 7 after booking a session online (3 people at £2 each).