HOW TO MAKE NATURAL DYE WITH ACORNS | ORGANIC COLOR | BEIGE BROWN BLACK GREEN | TANNIN | SHIBORI

If you are lucky enough to have an oak tree in your midst, you can add rich beige & golden browns to your dye pot with acorns. After the nuts fall from the tree, forage them to create a tannin rich dye to use for coloring or a mordant. You can make darker hues with iron water to bring gray, olive green and even black into your color palette. This tutorial will show you how to brew dye from acorns to use in a shibori technique & create a beautiful resist design with iron water. You will see the resulting itajime design on cotton and color swatch samples (cotton & silk) of the acorn dye itself.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction - Acorn
0:58 Foraging for acorns
4:54 How to make acorn dye
6:12 How to fold itajime shibori design
7:15 First resist dip - acorn dye
8:10 Second resist dip - iron water
9:27 Unwrap shibori result
10:29 Color samples on cotton & silk
10:56 Wrap up
14:18 Sneak peek of next tutorial
15:41 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST
Acorns
Towel
Hammer
Pot with lid
Bowl
Measuring cup
Strainer
Spoon
Glass jars
Storage container
Clothes pins
Tongs
Iron water/Iron powder
Measuring spoon for iron
Gloves
Textile of choice

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