#madder root

[lailoken]

Ritually dying cordage with Ochre, Madder, and Human Blood is all fun and games until the stench of your own rotting gore begins to take hold. 🥲

[dormouseinatrenchcoat]

Learned there's two different kinds of madder root today while dyeing some clothes and spare mordanted fabric.

I have rubia cordifolia and rubia tinctorum, the latter of which is the one capable of making really rich purples. No wonder I haven't had a successful purple yet! The more you knowww

[aridlizzy]

Madder Root woodset!

Madder root is found beneath madder flowers. When the flowers are bonemealed, the dirt beneath them is turned into madder root blocks! These can be harvested for madder root, a source of Maroon dye.

However, when combined in a 2x2 grid you can craft madder log blocks! these are the source of the woodset.

[bumblebeeappletree]

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

[highqueenseleni]

I have discovered a lake pigment that smells worse than days upon days of cabbage.

Alkanet!

But wait, It’s Indigo with the steel chair!!

I didn’t even go for the fermentation method, I just took some powdered indigo (used for hair dye, got it at the Indian Market for like $5, so much cheaper than buying it from a dye shop, and yes I know the quality is probably not as high, but in this experimental state I am fine with that) and it reeks. Luckily making it alkali (a nice fancy 12 on the pH scale) didn’t make the smell worse like I was worried it would, but I had to drain it earlier than I intended to because every time I went to my kitchen island turned alchemy table the smell was just too much.

BUT I did get some indigo. I precipitated some onto chalk and it is a wonderfully pale indigo, and I got probably enough pigment to make a full pan and once it finished drying I will mull it up. I have almost a full bag so I can try to make more...once I get my nerve up to deal with stinky. I also need a better way to get oxygen in the vat to oxidize the indigo particles other than whisking and pouring the jars back and forth.

A lot of my lake pigment research is reverse engineering stuff about dyes and turning them into lakes. Sometimes it works beautifully, sometimes it fails catastrophically because pH is mean. But up next is some Indian madder root experiments, including dyeing a white cotton shirt into a lovely red.

[sheepyhollows]

Seagreen and Sapphire // madder

[fungusqueen]

Recent dyeing results with madder root. The most vivid color is the initial bath and the rest are progressive exhaust baths. Surprisingly, the color only takes about 20 min to strike and doesn’t require a lot of heat/simmering for the color to bind

[jennablackmorebooks]

"But if my vices are a burden, please don't let me off..."

I finally finished the scarf I've been working on. I haven't knit much in a while, in fact, the last thing I finished before this was a particular "raspberry beret" back in July! But I've been wanting for quite some time to have a scarf dyed with the madder root (it must be obvious why after I wrote a book called The Line Madder and all, my writing truly does inspire some other fascinations). So I ordered some madder dyed wool and modified a pattern I found to make this! This is my first time using the lacing technique at the ends, and I'm impressed with how it turned, out, I really improved the lacing as I went. I'm rather pleased to have a scarf now made with my favourite natural dye, and something to connect back to my favourite of my books even when I can't have the book itself with me. I know I post usually solely about my writing and art involving it on here, but knitting is a new one for this account and I'll probably be dropping off more of it here in the future! After all, showcasing mostly only my writing stuff would be quite limiting in what I can share...