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yesterday, i got to play with natural dyes all day. i set up 5 traditional natural dye vats: 2 black walnut, madder, tumeric and osage orange. inspired by india flint, i tore up an old linen tablecloth and used this cloth to experiment with her direct application techniques. i arranged leaves, onion skins and bloodroot pieces on the squares of wet linen, then folded and bound and into the dyepots. i am very pleased with the result. opening these little bundles was like opening cloth gifts!
model: dc dye
photographer: kevin chung
location: random shack || dallas, tx
50mm f/1.4
canon 5dmark3
natural light
Natalia Dyer speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
from left..white pieces are not dyed at all....
yellow are dyed with chaga...and the green iis both dyed with chaga and overdyed with a weak iron solution...
I have used fabric...wool ( both wool that have been in an Alum solution before the dyeing proces and wool that has not got any Alum)..
I have used cotton and linen ( no Alum used for these fabrics)...cotton is lowest row at the left…
at the right you see two kinds of linen ( I normally use it for my canvas for painting)..the most upper ones is without dyeing and the next is with chaga and under those is chaga and iron ( made the color olive-green)..a coarse kind of linen and a more fine one…
The result is that it actually did not have any need to give wool some alum here...the colors were the same for both with alum and without...what did have some importance was how long the fabric stayed into the dyeing bath of Chaga….some did stay in there for 24 hours and some for 5 x 24 hours….and those staying in the dyeing bath for 5x24 hours did get a more saturated color...not darker, despite these many hours, but a better and more deep kind of the color….
And compared to what I had expected when putting the fabric into the dye-bath and seeing it turn almost dark.brownish black...it turn out kind of yellow, not even brown…..but I think it is a good dye even though….especially for wool it is satisfactory…..
Normally if I dye on fabric like cotton or linen..i will give them first some solution of bark or leaves from either oak or alder or something like it...plant-material that has some tannins...and then i will dry it and after that i will give it some alum...then it will be ready for taking up the dye as much as it can….some dyeing plant.materials doesn´t need those 3 processes...an ex. can be leaves and husks from Walnut...my experience...some others probably too...
Tye dye birthday cake that I made for my neice. I love the way the light reflects off the disco ball onto the top of the cake.
Dyers Transport's new Kenworth K200 Aerodyne makes a move on the Ring Road around Melbourne. Looks sweet in the Dyers colours!!
May 31, 2023
Tie dyeing in my latest effort to bring back the Age of Aquarius!
I suppose a hippie elf might wear this shirt ... :-)
A few months ago I ran across a clever small nitrogen laser build.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnXftuJ9Zo
Back in the early seventies I was fascinated by nitrogen lasers and tried to build one. The vacuum sealing (and excess complexity) was my downfall. Years later I built a simpler unit that worked but that was that.
Before that I tried to build the flash-lamp pumped dye laser from CL Strong but once again lack of machining resources stopped my project.
I decided to finish what I had started fifty years ago. The build was clever and straightforward. After a short while and with about 50$ I had the nitrogen laser. It worked fine (even with air) so I got started on making a nitrogen laser pumped dye laser.
I had some old surplus quartz quvettes that had frosted sides. I used diamond abrasives to polish the two frosted sides. My attic full of crap yielded the mirrors and (amazingly) the quartz cylindrical lens.
In my experience the lens was the most useful part. I could get the dyes to lase using just the lens (super-radiance) but the mirrors not, except for one dye.
This photo shows the lens, the dye filled cuvette and the mirrors lasing. The dye is a fountain pen ink (probably a Fluorescein dye) lazing green. The pump is the nitrogen laser which is invisible UV light.
Cheers.
Workers tanning and dyeing leather in Fes, Morocco. It is difficult for tourists to actually go into the dyeing area, but there are a number of leather shops with balconies where you can watch the action in the pits.
850 DYE RM29. Sun star 1/24 London Transport AEC Routemaster in 1977 'Queen's Silver Jubilee' livery with the (then) iconic Woolworth advert. I bought ages ago but never posted any photos.
850 DYE RM29. Sun star 1/24 London Transport AEC Routemaster in 1977 'Queen's Silver Jubilee' livery with the (then) iconic Woolworth advert. I bought ages ago but never posted any photos.
De gauche à droite et de haut en bas : Anemone, 1989 (dye transfer) ; Amaryllis, 1985 (cibachrome) ; Calla Lily, 1987 (dye transfer) ; Poppy, 1988 (dye transfer) ; Double Jack in the Pulpit, 1988 (dye transfer) ; Calla Lily, 1987 (dye transfer) ; Tulip, 1988 (dye transfer) ; Poppy, 1988 (dye transfer) ; Flower, 1985 (cibachrome) ; Mum, 1989 (dye transfer)
até que enfim consegui fazer um tutorial dessas belezinhas, se quiserem conferir é só clicar óh:
Nosey spent most of the dyeing day outside. I let her in when I had all the cups rinsed and fabric in the washer. I found her sitting on the middle of the table as if to say, "I knew missed something fun here!"
Demolished building is the Dyer Street Land Corporation. The Union Trust tower (where the Dorrance is located and The Federal Reserve was before) can be seen at the right edge of both photos.
FOV: 4" wide.
Left: Pyranine (from yellow hi-liter pen)
Right: Jolly Rancher Cherry candy partially dissolved in concentrated tonic water containing quinine.
Contains:
Pyranine (FL Yellow green >BL/UVabc)
Red Dye #40 (FL Red >BL/UVabc)
Quinine (FL Blue >UVabc)
Shown under UVa light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
Blue = 450nm,
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Pyranine and Quinine
16Nov2015
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps