I need the complete process of dying 100% cotton with walnut hulls.
I've been looking around and saw the results someone posted here on the planet of some tshirts dyed with walnut hull dye. I live in the desert but I have a half dozen white tshirts I would like to dye...
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No, not too much. It's pretty simple, really. First of all, with walnut hulls you rarely need a mordant. I have dyed cotton with just hulls and water and the color stayed fast. I don't know the...
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Here's some info and a few links that may prove helpful: From http://home.onemain.com/~crowland/Pages/Walnut.html Black Walnut Recipes From Carol Todd crowland@onemain.com RECIPE - BLACK WALNUT HUSKS...
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Wow! Thanks everybody. I'm checking it all out.
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I'd try the mordant. I dyed a pair of shorts with walnut hull, and it turned out mottled or uneven. I just put them in the solution and moved them around from time to time. Good luck to you.
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Yeah, I have concerns about uneven coloring. These are used Tshirts. So there has been different things from time to time spilled on them and then washed out. You can't see anything to look at them...
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myself ....I would simmer the cotton fabric in the dye bath & stirring would help to... (In doing leather the dye bath needs to be cooler as you can cook the leather... cool enough to stick you...
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WHEN I WAS DOING A LOT OF TRAPPING WE USED WALNUT HULLS TO DYE AND DE-SCENT OUR TRAPS BEFORE EVERY SEASON. IT ALSO PREVENTS RUST! WE TOOK WALNUT HULLS AND PUT THEM INTO A BARREL AND LET THEM SIT AND...
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I just tried dying a white tee without a mordant and it worked well. I just heated the walnut juice, swilled the tee around and let it soak for a bit. Looks really nice actually, especially because it...
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Has anyone tried dying fabric with red ochre? If this is too off topic, I can move it. I have a big bag and have used it to color wood, but never fabric...
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You probably should clean the fabric in soda ash first, before dying or usig a mordant. It removes any residue from the fabric, such as detergent or fabric softeners. Anything like that is going to...
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Eskimo, the reason it came out uneven is probably because you didnt stir it enough. Sometimes you will get air bubbles in the cloth and then it turns out splotchy. When I stir, i never have uneveness...
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A couple of words of caution Never reuse a dye pot for foodstuff cooking some of the mordants and dye materials will never come clean and could make you sick.
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For cotton,i use alum & a little tartaric acid , which helps colours penetrate the threads, iron water if I want it darker than the light brown that I usually get. I use the husks after they have...
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Don't know if this would be a big issue with cotton, but when I dye wool, I presoak it in the same temperature of water first, before placing it in my dye pot. It seems to me that having the fiber...
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I use only the dried husks, after the nuts have fallen from their tree, soak a little overnight, boil, add cotton, let simmer a while. That's about it. Prepared cotton with Alum. Green walnuts are for...
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I use the green husks, after the nuts fall. I mash them up, boil them, and a bit of salt (though I probably don't need to) and soak the garment in the liquid and simmer it a bit. Works great.
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