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Artificial Dyes Are Out. Natural Vegetable Dyes Are In!

Check out how easy it is to make naturally dyed Easter eggs with items you probably already have in your fridge. Awesome mom hacks! #artificialdyes #diy #easter

Skip Artificial Dyes and Decorate Your Easter Eggs with Veggies

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This video blog post is the last of the series on natural dyes and we have dedicated this post to our village grandmas!! At Thai Silk Magic we could not exist without the help, experience and absolute determination of our grandmas to maintain some of our traditional methods.

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Natural Dyes http://www.thaisilkmagic.com Hello everybody. This is Peter Beckenham from Thai Silk Magic. In this very quick video as part of our Amazing Natural Dyes series you can see my wife Dao and our 2 teenage girls, Am and Wan. Today they are very excited because we have found a particular species of wild flower that we haven't seen for 3 or 4 years. The wild flower is called "klingtar" and it produces wonderful natural dye colours including greens, pinks and greys. They're normally discovered around the klongs which are small dams in the rice fields around our village. But we haven't seen them for 2 or 3 years so this is quite an exciting day for everybody. The leaves and the flowers are combined together in the natural dyes process and we have discovered them to be wonderfully colour fast colours for our Thai silks.

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In this part 4 of our natural dye series we want you to check out this amazing Thai tree. It’s called Mai Pladoo. It can produce an unbelievable range of natural dye colours. But these colours will change dramatically according to the age of the tree, how long you boil the wood and even the temperature you cook it with. And it’s part of Dao’s grandma’s very best kept natural dye secrets.

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http://www.thaisilkmagic.com/blog In this part 4 of our natural dye series we want you to check out this amazing Thai tree. It's called Mai Pladoo. It can produce an unbelievable range of natural dye colours. But these colours will change dramatically according to the age of the tree, how long you boil the wood and even the temperature you cook it with. And it's part of Dao's grandma's very best kept secrets. Now watch what happens here. Dao has cut pieces of an old Mai Pladoo tree. Popping them into the glass of just luke warm water. So the effect won't be as dramatic as if she was boiling it. But you can already see the green colour starting to emerge and even a tinge of blue at the top. The longer she leaves that the more golden the colour will become. There this one has been left for about 25 minutes and it's much lighter golden colour with no blue at all. Now you see the Mai Pladoo deep yellow natural dye colour being prepared to be applied to Thai silk fibers.

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This is Part 3 of our 5 Part Series on Amazing Natural Dyes. Have you ever wondered if those crustations you see on certain trees could be at all useful? The ones you see in this video are built by small grubs called Klung before they move on. And they are a fantastic source of natural dye colours for our Thai silk.

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http://wwwthaisilkmagic.com/blog This is Part 3 of our 5 Part Series on amazing Natural Dyes. Have you ever wondered if those crustations you see on certain trees could be at all useful? Well these are. They are built by small grubs called Klung before they move on. This is another of Dao's grandma's secret natural dye ingredients and an important part of our totally natural silk creations. We normally boil the empty crustations for many, many hours before they are ready for any dye purposes. Then they absorb perfectly with our Thai silk threads But this is just a quick demonstration. Dao popped them into a plastic glass and if the water was hotter you would see an even more rapid change in colour.

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This video blog post looks at why do so few people create natural silk with purely natural dyes? This question was the focus of a visit to Thai Silk Magic by the team from the Queen of Thailand’s Silk Project seen here with Thai Silk Magic Founder, Amnuai in the middle of the photo. This visit was very exciting for us as being remotely located we have few visitors. The Thai Silk Project Team visit gave us an opportunity to show what, why and how we create our handmade Thai silk.