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MORE THAN ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN INDIGO DYE VAT
If this is your first foray into the world of indigo dyeing, I recommend starting with a kit. Though the step by step, detailed instructions that follow can certainly be followed by beginners, for ease, convenience and potential for less frustration, an all-in-one kit can't be beat. I recommend my own natural indigo kit, but really, any (whether synthetic or natural) will help to familiarize you with the concepts and process of working with indigo. Thank you for humoring my plug, on to the info!Funda kabanzi -
Maintaining and Troubleshooting an Organic Indigo Vat
The questions I receive most frequently about natural dyeing seems to center on the indigo vat and its maintenance. Since 2011 I have been making and using organic indigo vats, an art and skill that I learned from Michel Garcia.My current vat began in a 5 gallon vessel over 2 years ago. I enlarged it to fill an 8 gallon vessel, and then last year I enlarged my vat again to fill a 30 gallon container. The increased size was needed because I was dyeing larger pieces of cloth.Funda kabanzi -
How to Balance a Fructose Indigo Vat
If your vat liquid is clear, it needs more of your reducing agent and you probably need to check the pH. If it is clear water or blue, your vat isn’t reduced, so add more fructose powder. If the liquid is yellow/amber, your vat is reduced.Funda kabanzi -
Storing henna and indigo correctly is really important to make sure you protect the potency of the hair dye.You must always store henna powder and indigo powder in a cool, dry, dark place, out of sunlight, and out of the reach of children.Unopened packets of Renaissance henna, indigo, cassia obovata, and other plant products, will easily last up to five years or longer if stored correctly.Funda kabanzi -
Baptisia australis, commonly known as blue wild indigo or blue false indigo, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae (legumes). It is toxic.it is native to much of central and eastern North America and is particularly common in the Midwest, but it has also been introduced well beyond one its natural range. Naturally it can be found growing wild at the borders of woods, along streams or in open meadows. It often has difficulty seeding itself in its native areas due to parasitic weevils that enter the seed pods, making the number of viable seeds very low. Indigo is a plant that has a blue dye in it. You probably have indigo dyed cloth in your closet, in a pair of blue jeans. Jeans are dyed with indigo. People have used indigo alone or in combination with henna to dye their hair black for at least 4000 years. During the 19th and 20th century indigo was such a common hair dye in Europe and the US, that it was marketed as “black henna”. Henna is never black, henna never dyes hair black, but powdered indigo resembles powdered henna and it DOES dye hair black. So, when indigo was sold as hair dye, it was called “black henna”. When it was sold to dye cloth, it was called indigo. There are still many boxes of indigo in stores marked “black henna” as a legacy of this old misnomer.Funda kabanzi -
Frequently Asked Questions About Indigo
Indigo is a pigment from the leaves of the indigo plant called Indigofera tinctoria, one of the oldest dyes known to humankind. It is the only natural plant-based blue and its colorant is present in other plants, including woad (Isatis tinctoria), Japanese indigo, (Persicaria tinctoria, a buckwheat) and Strobilanthes cusia, a distant cousin to the ornamental Persian Shield that you can buy at Home Depot. Indigo was used to dye shrouds for Egyptian burials, uniforms for Napoleon’s Army, prestige cloth for African chiefs and to dye denim for blue jeans. Indigo was a valued historical crop and grown and tended by enslaved people in the US. European colonizers forced Bengali and indigenous workers to grow indigo under horrible conditions, resulting in worker uprisings and revolts. The color was synthesized around 1880 by Alfred Bayer and shortly after the world indigo market collapsed as manufacturers switched to the new miracle synthetic dye. Cultivation acreage plummeted and within 20 years only a fraction of the indigo used worldwide was from natural sources. An excellent resource about the history of indigo is Jenny Balfour-Paul’s book Indigo: Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans.Funda kabanzi -
Exploring the Versatility of Black and Indigo Denim for Everyday Fashion Choices
The Timeless Allure of Denim A Focus on Black and Indigo Denim, a fabric synonymousFunda kabanzi -
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Exploring the Beauty and Benefits of Natural Indigo Fabric Dye for Eco-Friendly Fashion
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