The citric acid in lemon is a natural way to create printed designs using a discharge technique. The combination of iron & tannin is an amazing way to make darker colors that can be gently removed with the bleaching strength of lemon juice. Join me as I repurpose rooibos tea for dyeing cotton, sadden the color with iron & make a reverse polka dot design with the help of citric acid.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction - Lemon discharge printing
1:39 Tannin in natural dyeing
4:08 W.O.F.
4:33 Iron water
6:28 Fiber prep
7:24 Tea tannin dye
8:34 How to handle iron
10:01 Iron bath
12:38 Printing set-up
15:21 Lemon discharge
17:12 Thickeners
18:29 Printing with lemon
20:15 Final steps
21:57 Results & wrap up
23:22 Sneak peek of next tutorial
24:07 Blooper
SUPPLY LIST
Textile - cotton shown in video
Tea - rooibos dye shown in video
Iron water - ferrous sulfate powder
Lemon juice or citric acid
Calcium carbonate - chalk
Thickener - gum tragacanth shown in video
Bowls
Measuring spoons
Pot with lid
Tongs
Spoon
Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.
Painter's tape
Scrap cloth for blotting
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Pomegranate brewing in a jar that used to House my iron water stash - one month in. It’s so beautiful!
Pomegranate, iron in a Kilner jar.
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Foraged wild fennel dye
Skeins as they were drying and I was already so excited about how they were turning out
In autumn, I took myself picking in the definitely haunted abandoned orchid behind the railway, between the housing estate and the wetlands. There were signs of at least one person living in the bushes there, and I hoped that I wasn't about to surprise anyone/make them feel uncomfortable. I helped myself to blackberries, and stripped the wild growing fennel of all the feathery leaves I could find. (Fennel is invasive in my part of the world.) The plants in the orchid were tall after a wet summer, going to seed. In the way of annuals going to seed, there weren't many leaves left, but plenty for my first experiment with fennel.
Pictured: my dear friend with a giant fennel plant. This friend first showed me the abandoned orchid.
I try to do 1:1 leaves to weight of fibre in all my dye baths, but I'm not precise about it.
The dyebath of fennel leaves I heated and let cool over several days. The smell was the most potion of potions I have ever. Aniseed but turned up to 11.
I mordanted my fibre with alum before adding it to the dyebath
After heating and cooling to extract the colour, I strained out the leaves and added the alum mordanted fibre. Gently heated and held at 80c for as long as I could be bothered (an hour).
(Note to self for next time: try flowers as well as leaves.)
Modified with iron water - warm water and {iron water preparation} left in bucket for 1 hour. This shifts the tone from a yellowish green down to a forest green <3
So I can never seem to get a good photo, it is much much greener in real life I swear
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I’m practicing dying white cotton (mostly yarn but some clothing items) with herbs and roots and such.
It makes me feel like a kid mixing potions outside with whatever I find in a bucket.
With this one (one of my husband’s white undershirts) I attempted a tie dye effect with iron water I made with rusty nails.
This shirt has been washed normally with detergent and dried. I’ve only been doing this 4-5 weeks so I’m still learning.
So far I’m doing the best with dying things yellow.
Knowing me I will obsess over it for a little while longer then drop it and move onto something else. ♥️
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I'm stupid.
I'm stupid and it made all these cutscenes awkward I'm so sorry Wyll.
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Iron Lung
don't worry about the blood ocean - it's totally safe :)
twitter: X
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Kiri: Poor Spider. He must be so scared.
Meanwhile...
Spider: Why don't you crouch down here so I can smack that grin off you face!
Quaritch:
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The combination of iron & tannin is an amazing way to make dark colors for printing designs on textile. With the help of a tannin-rich dye source like tea, you can bring deep natural tones to the fiber while keeping the warm neutral background hues. Join me as I brew rooibos tea for dyeing cotton & make a polka dot design using iron water (ferrous sulfate).
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction - Iron & tea tannin printing
1:28 Iron + tannin
3:08 Tannin sources
5:29 Rooibos tea dye
8:04 Iron water
10:28 Printing set-up
11:52 Thickeners
13:00 Printing with iron
15:43 Post print prep
17:19 Cold tea soak
17:46 Results
18:58 Wrap up
19:14 Sneak peek of next tutorial
19:39 Blooper
SUPPLY LIST
Textile - cotton shown in video
Tea - rooibos dye shown in video
Iron water - ferrous sulfate powder
Sodium carbonate - washing soda or soda ash
Bowls
Measuring spoons
Pot with lid
Tongs
Spoon
Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.
Painter's tape
Scrap cloth for blotting
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almost finished! this is the shirt I dyed for my brother for Christmas, done with avocado pits and a bit of iron to highlight the waves. depending on how it dries, it might go back in the soup overnight but I think it will be fine, and once it's totally dry, I'm doing some lettering in a secret code with painted with iron water
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~interaction loosely based on a real event between my cousins and their mom~
Kiri, from the couch next to Jake: If you don't hand over the popcorn, I'm telling Dad.
Lo'ak, standing up and withholding popcorn: HA, jokes on you, I'm not afraid of Dad.
Jake: Ow.
Kiri, snuggling into Jake: It's okay Dad, I'm afraid of you.
Jake: Wow, thanks, babygirl.
Lo’ak, watching them: .... scooch over, I wanna cuddle with my dad.
Kiri: NO, I'm cuddling my dad! Get your own dad!
Neteyam, from the other couch: That whole conversation gave me whiplash.
Spider, next to him: I actually think I'm having a stroke.
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Lol just imagine a certain spider child coming home from school. (Aka me projecting cause my finals started this week.)
He was tired okay? Finals were coming up, school was a mess with the pre-test anxiety, teachers getting stricter about missing grades or a random haywire web shooter or eight in science class landing on the back of a chair or desk or whatever it was that day. Ned was stressing about this subject and the next, he just wanted a break.
He slumps into the lab doorway, bag sliding off his shoulders and landing with a thud wherever he just so happened to drop it. (On top of some abandoned project that had been downgraded from desk to floor after it was scraped) while he sleepily stumbled into the little section of the lab that had been claimed by him.
And so what if he just....kept walking, if you could even call it that. Eyes blurry, feet shuffling. He let out a yawn as he dropped to the ground, laying down and stretching out like a cat before curling up and getting comfortable. He settled himself and shut his eyes. He knew he shouldn't have sat down, he knew he had at least another hour of studying if he wanted to pass. But the floor-he was on the floor right? The floor was so comfy, and it was nice to lay on. The cold contrasted with his warm skin while he pressed his head against the hard surface. Plus it made a nice cooling feeling that reminded him of when he would stay out a little too late and pass out on some random rooftop.
He was later awoken by the sound of a coffee cup shattering and an exasperated yelp then exaggerated groan and finally an exhausted sigh from his dad boss. "Peter why are you on my ceiling?"
Have a nice day and remember to sleep and drink water you dumbasses <3
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