Cats Costumery | I tried dyeing fabric with ✨elderberries✨ | Will It Dye? Ep.4 @CatsCostumery | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
It's been a little while since I've done one of these, but I'm still so interested in natural dyeing that when I spotted these berries at the back of the garden, I had to give it a go. In this episode, I go through the basic steps of natural dyeing and how I've tweaked them slightly to this project since I didn't have a berry specific recipe. In this case, I used some elderberries from an elderberry tree in my garden. As always, please do your due diligence if you're looking to forage and use foraged goods: make sure it's legal to forage what and where you're foraging, ensure you don't take so much there is not enough left for the wildlife, and that what you're using is not toxic for its intended purpose. I used the berries to dye four meters of lightweight linen for a dress.
If it wasn't for the spider infestation (why are spiders in trees?!), I would be trying this again on a smaller quantity of fabric and for less time to achieve different results. I also wanted to add that in the future, I probably won't machine rinse the fabric straight after dyeing, and instead I'll manually rinse it and just use the spin and drain function on the machine (I was sure I wouldn't be able to drain the fabric properly by hand because there were four meters of it!). I'll keep an eye out for other things around that I can use for dyeing and please, leave any recommendations of dyestuffs you'd like me to try down below!
The book I mentioned can be found here: amzn.to/3qVhjsD
-- OTHER EPISODES --
Episode 1: Mexican Mint youtu.be/o22ipzwRq0k
Episode 2: Pine Cones youtu.be/pk1mhiEyOpQ
Episode 3: Rowan Berries youtu.be/654bWCS6M4c
Playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxaja7Ldgi2h8EndI8KUh6m_olzV25Vx
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For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
Music is from Epidemic Sound.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
It's been a little while since I've done one of these, but I'm still so interested in natural dyeing that when I spotted these berries at the back of the garden, I had to give it a go. In this episode, I go through the basic steps of natural dyeing and how I've tweaked them slightly to this project since I didn't have a berry specific recipe. In this case, I used some elderberries from an elderberry tree in my garden. As always, please do your due diligence if you're looking to forage and use foraged goods: make sure it's legal to forage what and where you're foraging, ensure you don't take so much there is not enough left for the wildlife, and that what you're using is not toxic for its intended purpose. I used the berries to dye four meters of lightweight linen for a dress.
If it wasn't for the spider infestation (why are spiders in trees?!), I would be trying this again on a smaller quantity of fabric and for less time to achieve different results. I also wanted to add that in the future, I probably won't machine rinse the fabric straight after dyeing, and instead I'll manually rinse it and just use the spin and drain function on the machine (I was sure I wouldn't be able to drain the fabric properly by hand because there were four meters of it!). I'll keep an eye out for other things around that I can use for dyeing and please, leave any recommendations of dyestuffs you'd like me to try down below!
The book I mentioned can be found here: amzn.to/3qVhjsD
-- OTHER EPISODES --
Episode 1: Mexican Mint youtu.be/o22ipzwRq0k
Episode 2: Pine Cones youtu.be/pk1mhiEyOpQ
Episode 3: Rowan Berries youtu.be/654bWCS6M4c
Playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxaja7Ldgi2h8EndI8KUh6m_olzV25Vx
-- MORE --
Patreon (exclusive videos), patreon.com/catscostumery
Instagram (perhaps overactive stories): @catscostumery
instagram.com/catscostumery
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/V7V7HRLN
Blog: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/catscostumery
-- All Amazon Links are affiliate links! I also have a list of all my useful sewing things here: amazon.com/shop/catscostumery --
For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
Music is from Epidemic Sound.
