Making indigo and dyeing jeans blue

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In this video, I make some indigo and dye jeans and socks.
For a long time, indigo was harvested from plants, but it was eventually synthesized. I'll be doing one of the early synthesis methods, which is easy, but not commercially viable. In the future, I might try out the modern industrial method.
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@LJTravis95 3 жыл бұрын

"However, pants are way too big for a beaker." Today on Nile Red, we get a grasp on relative sizes of objects.

@robmckennie4203 3 жыл бұрын

"pants are way too big for a beaker" *furiously taking notes*

@Artificial_Historian 3 жыл бұрын

very important observation xD

@nolanmythbuster 2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to see him buy a 5 gallon beaker, or go the other way and use doll sized Levi's.

@mericet39 2 жыл бұрын

Beaker is small, pants are far away

@rroliii8579 2 жыл бұрын

I have never had so much power I can choose to keep you on 1k likes or 1.1k I choose 1.1k good sir

@jansenart0 6 жыл бұрын

And so began NileRed's fashion empire.

@siriuskndfgsegg7495 6 жыл бұрын

purgruv only the *finest*

@U014B 5 жыл бұрын

purgruv But does he wash the fabrics with water from the Nile?

@Littlefa3 5 жыл бұрын

Their slogan is 'it looks pretty good'

@diazconias 5 жыл бұрын

@@U014B I don´t see another way, you can also, if you check out the secret link in the description.

@Gkokkinakis2 5 жыл бұрын

@@U014B no but he uses hydrochloric acid

@fatkiller1000 3 жыл бұрын

I love it when you show the ingredients. It always sounds like "here i have poison,poison,poison,and poison".

@reecejohs3334 Жыл бұрын

I especially love how he showed the shaving products in a similar manner to how he displays very strong chemicals

@Bread_ish Жыл бұрын

forgot toxin

@ScienceDiscoverer Жыл бұрын

@@reecejohs3334 Sponsor block ;)

@nottheoneyourelookingfor0504 3 ай бұрын

Where’s the tasty fish?

@taiwanluthiers 4 жыл бұрын

I should mention, that jeans are not only pre dyed, but the thread is not dyed all the way through (meaning the core of the thread is white). Furthermore, the warp and weft threads (the cross and up and down threads in a loom) are different color. The warp thread is the blue indigo dyed thread and the weft is basically just white thread. This is why denim look darker on one side than other. And as you know denim is twill woven so it's quite dense. All jeans start out dark blue and various treatments are given to it to change its shade. For example the sky blue jeans are stone washed, meaning it was placed in an industrial washing machine with stones to wear away the surface of the jean, making it lighter but also more "worn in". The really pale color jeans you see are stone washed and then bleached, giving you the light blue color (I did this before). If you are doing this with Chlorox make sure you soak it with sodium bisulfite after this or else the jean will slowly deteriorate. The mottled jeans you see in the 80s were done with stones and bleach (called acid wash).

@orchdork775 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating!! There is just something so cool about taking different fibers and weaving them together in a unique way to create a specialized fabric. It really blows my mind that you can have cotton jeans, a cotton shirt, and even cotton velvet upholstery that feel and look completely different, but are made from the same fiber. I would love to learn more about the different types of fibers and weaves, and how different combinations change the properties of a fabric, but I have no idea where to start. Do you know where/how I could learn more about this kind of stuff, especially for a beginner?

@taiwanluthiers 3 жыл бұрын

@@orchdork775 I learned most of this tie dying, reading various forums about tie dying. In addition to fiber reactive dies (which is what they use for tie dyes) the suppliers who sells dyes also sell other dyes like indigo type vat dyes. So some naturally have asked how to re dye jeans that has faded, and this is the answer that came up. But processing jeans isn't something you do at home, as for example stone washing involves putting stones inside a washer, and this would ruin a home washer very quickly. I have however made light blue jeans by taking a stonewashed jean and soaking it in chlorine bleach. You have to neutralize the bleach with sodium bisulphite after this or else the fabric will continue to degrade long after the bleach is washed off.

@fullbellydragonmama 3 жыл бұрын

I live for this kind of textile nerding

@donaldthesandwich 2 жыл бұрын

Man sounds like a wiki page

@LadyRavenB 6 жыл бұрын

Tip: when dyeing fabric, presoaking helps to eliminate air pockets and aids in even color absorption.

@brownie3454 7 ай бұрын

every soaking is a presoaking

@ElGeFe 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, well, I accidentally made blue socks and tshirts using nothing more than a washer, dryer and a blue piece of clothing... Yours look better...

@polyjohn3425 6 жыл бұрын

A couple of years ago I made all of my white work uniforms pink because of a stray red sock. I'm now very very careful with my laundry...

@codename9824 6 жыл бұрын

I admire your resourcefulness in using what you had on hand to dye clothing haha

@alexku8452 6 жыл бұрын

PolyJohn they take color so easy, but getting it undone... Almost impossible

@polyjohn3425 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's like, the color goes in, it outta come out, right? it came out of the damn sock!

@fuzzzvibe 6 жыл бұрын

I don't even own a pair of white socks.

@domonator5000 5 жыл бұрын

shouldn't this be on Nile *Blue*

@Sharpless2 4 жыл бұрын

heres the door, show yourself out.

@domonator5000 4 жыл бұрын

Dead Meme y u bully me?

@Sharpless2 4 жыл бұрын

@@domonator5000 i wasnt bullying you, its a saying you say when someone made a pun ;-;

@angelique5804 4 жыл бұрын

@@Sharpless2 AHAHA

@xlunaxlovex 4 жыл бұрын

@@Sharpless2 he didn't really call it bullying, he was referencing a meme..

@SkylerPC 6 жыл бұрын

The ending made me laugh. Usually these videos send like, "the final result is a relatively low yield of chloroform" opposed to "the final result here is a rather cool pair of pants"

@TheChachavids 6 жыл бұрын

I'm a first-year Chemistry student in the UK and can say with confidence that not only are you one of the clearest, engaging educators to teach this subject but also one of the main reasons I decided to take Chemistry. Your Channel deserves more recognition... can't wait for future videos!

@weedshoes5089 2 жыл бұрын

That’s because he’s an American. We went to space and leveled Japan with our chemistry.

@EmyrDerfel Жыл бұрын

@@weedshoes5089 he's Canadian, and the Manhattan project was heavily staffed with European physicists not US chemists.

@yjrzidovvjsmmra9300 Жыл бұрын

@@weedshoes5089 lol your funny, or are you?

@crylune Жыл бұрын

@@weedshoes5089 Oh shut the fuck up. You stole Europe's homework for both space exploration and the atomic bombs, and you didn't "level" Japan, you had a commander-in-chief and field marshal that were so retarded as to think taking the lives of 200k innocent people was the only way to end that war. Typical 'murican stupidity and ego right here, considering Nile's not even american.

@weedshoes5089 Жыл бұрын

@@crylune you know America is a region, right?

@Time1608TV 6 жыл бұрын

Those pronounciations of the german names are priceless :D

@NileRed 6 жыл бұрын

Cause they are flawless, right??

@jacim9446 5 жыл бұрын

@@NileRed absolutely flawless Sounded just like a native 😁😁😁👌

@snbeast9545 5 жыл бұрын

He doesn't even try "Johannes", and "Adolf" was the standard messup of a long A.

@gutentag1752 3 жыл бұрын

I mean for an german native speaker like me it's some type of pain to hear how those names are pronounced from non natives because there are pronounced in a quite different way but well I think that you pronounced it quite well for a non-native.

@pablo69.420bl 3 жыл бұрын

@@gutentag1752 Any native speaker will cringe at a non native trying to speak their language(example: the Chinese trying to speak Serbian, it's very weird and funny)

@stu7604 4 жыл бұрын

Years ago I was on an exchange program in Germany and at one point toured a BASF indigo facility. The indigo color permeated everything... forklifts... vehicles... buildings... It was really quite surreal.

@trymatic7151 6 жыл бұрын

Will you be making Nile Red soon?

@NileRed 6 жыл бұрын

I definitely should

@DFliyerz 6 жыл бұрын

I recently made Nile red from Nile blue, and it's not too difficult but I'd be interested to hear if you run into the same thing I did where the final product smells VERY distinctly of artifical cherries.

@Aconitum_napellus 6 жыл бұрын

Your channel is above the Wiki page on the actual Nile red.

@5h4yn3 6 жыл бұрын

NileRed you definitely should!👍

@Nerdule 6 жыл бұрын

When I first found your channel, I was shocked when I archive-binged and found you'd never actually done that video.

@MajorKittenXIV 6 жыл бұрын

Idk why but “pants are way too big for a beaker” made me lol out of my chair

@raghavgalgali2645 6 жыл бұрын

Yup me too....

@cripwalklover8380 6 жыл бұрын

Would a beaker wear pants like this? Or Like this

@official-obama 2 жыл бұрын

@@cripwalklover8380 like this

@alansmithee419 4 жыл бұрын

12:25 "Resist dyeing" Would that it were so simple.

@hoilst 3 жыл бұрын

No, no, "Would that-it-'twere so simple" - trippingly.

@alansmithee419 3 жыл бұрын

@@hoilst "it 'twere" means "it it were." Where exactly have you got this from?

@hoilst 3 жыл бұрын

@@alansmithee419 Really? With a name like yours should know...

@alansmithee419 3 жыл бұрын

@@hoilst what I know is that when I search "would that it were so simple" I get videos, discussions etc about a film called "Hail Caesar," and when I search "would that it 'twere so simple" I get a bunch of nonsense from websites I've never heard of.

@hoilst 3 жыл бұрын

@@alansmithee419 Bingo: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZxibMSQmLPPm30.html

@1224chrisng 6 жыл бұрын

can you make Prussian Blue ?

@NileRed 6 жыл бұрын

I will

@SianaGearz 6 жыл бұрын

And whatever is in those killer pens that makes fountain pen ink invisible?

@1224chrisng 6 жыл бұрын

NileRed with a Cyanotype ?

@moki2093 6 жыл бұрын

noxxi knox he did make NO2 which is also used as a recreational drug Edit: I meant N2O NO2 is toxic

@fenirstardust8100 6 жыл бұрын

Cool! Be carful prussian blue is toxic

@itsjustrenee1320 6 жыл бұрын

When I was younger we rinsed our clothes in separate rinse tubs & we added blueing to help the jeans retain their blues & help the whites look whiter instead of yellow. That's why many fabric softener are blue, to help your whites look whiter.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 2 жыл бұрын

Same with hair dye toner so when you bleach it it doesn't look brassy

@olivialambert4124 4 жыл бұрын

The uneven colour looks great. I would have gone for a slightly more uneven colour if anything, but its not like you'd done jeans before so you can't really predict it that well and it would be far too easy to go overboard on that. I also prefer the lighter colour on them. The socks went surprisingly well. The different tone of the elastic was a very nice surprise, and frankly I wouldn't have changed anything about them.

@RaExpIn 6 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite projects. Watching the indigo form in the reaction and later the dye being oxidized, is almost like magic.

@TomsLab 6 жыл бұрын

I can't wait for the new lab tour!

@justusfelix2441 6 жыл бұрын

Tom's Lab same

@cobalt7530 6 жыл бұрын

Neither can I

@NileRed 6 жыл бұрын

All in good time

@frostythesnowbob607 6 жыл бұрын

NileRed hello I like u channel who else dose?

@JAL_EDM 4 жыл бұрын

@@frostythesnowbob607 uhhh around 1 million people like his channel.

@donmutanda 6 жыл бұрын

Make Titanium White please

@poppyrendall847 6 жыл бұрын

So proud you got a sponsor!

@NileRed 6 жыл бұрын

ha, thanks!

@mnfen9792 5 жыл бұрын

In the final test, the lack of NaOH caused the reduced indigo molecule remained in its acidic form instead of basic form. Only the basic form is ionic, which could be easily dissolved in water. That's why the yellow precipitation did not dissolve in the previous solution. Additionally, newly prepared sulfur is nearly white instead of yellowish brown, and that solid would not dissolve in NaOH solution rapidly. So the precipitation could not be sulfur.

@lukedoingthings983 4 жыл бұрын

Me: *has dozens of reading assignments* Me: *instead learns about the history of a color*

@cloudbanaban6527 4 жыл бұрын

Title: *indigo* Thumbnail: *green* Me: *wait thats illegal*

@freshfrij0les 4 жыл бұрын

jeans: blue

@slothgeneral4144 4 жыл бұрын

@@freshfrij0les Nile: red

@grammarcenturion4644 4 жыл бұрын

Hotel : Trivago

@luci.1140 3 жыл бұрын

Thumbnail: turns blue!!1!1!1!

@noahreckhorn6399 6 жыл бұрын

Yay a new NileRed video! I love your channel; it's so professional and clean, and extremely entertaining and educational. Great job.

@noahreckhorn6399 6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It seems like many channels have fallen into the clickbait, such as the 'King of Random' etc.

@NileRed 6 жыл бұрын

They do and they don't. I personally think my channel is treated pretty well

@Nonya943 2 жыл бұрын

@@noahreckhorn6399 you replied to yourself

@ulcus... 5 жыл бұрын

Even color is seen as a sign of low quality in most things as it represents industrial processes as opposed to hand made. This is very true in leather dyong especially

@aditishastri6087 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Nile- I’m from India- and one of the many ways we were oppressed by the English East India Company was the production of indigo. Peasants in the Bengal region were forced to grow indigo, and were not given a fair price for their efforts. Their way of producing indigo was quite different from what you showed. First, the indigo was taken to a Vat or fermenting vessel. The Vat beater had to remain in waist deep water for 8 hours. There were three vats: 1st vat: Leaves stripped off the indigo plant were first soaked in warm water in a vat for several hours. Liquid began to boil & rotten leaves were taken out. Liquid was drained into another vat that was placed just below the first vat. 2nd Vat or beater vat: Solution was continuously stirred and beaten with paddles, it turned green and then blue. Lime water was added & indigo was separated out in flakes, a muddy sediment settled at the bottom & clear liquid rose to the surface 3rd Vat or Settling vat: Liquid was drained off and the sediment, indigo pulp transferred to another vat & then pressed and dried for sale. Source: www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.examrace.com/Study-Material/History/NCERT-Lectures/NCERT-Class-8-History-Chapter-3-KZfaq-Lecture-Handouts.amp.html

@lucasbueno7534 6 жыл бұрын

It's a funny way to teach chemistry and science in general. Your series helped me a lot, really, you taught me science way better than my school teachers bro, I hope you keep this series and your regular videos... see ya, Brazil loves u

@davidf2244 4 жыл бұрын

I like how these super informal purely educational non-academic videos are more detailed and carefully explained step by step than many published of Chem papers.

@cphVlwYa 6 жыл бұрын

I feel like there's something wrong with Nile Red making indigo... Either way, awesome video as always

@CriticalTechReviews 6 жыл бұрын

Should have put it on his other channel, Nile Blue. *crickets*

@mr.cheese4871 3 жыл бұрын

6:13 "... and i was ready to dye..." me, vaguely paying attention and thinking he say die: same

@David-np3vx 3 жыл бұрын

Next you should try extracting the high quality products from the dollar shave club starter kit

@shurdi3 6 жыл бұрын

The uneven colouring looks a bit cooler imo Gives it a bit more of that homebrew feel

@redactedname5038 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite line was "The final result was a really cool pair of pants"

@askhowiknow5527 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dollar Shave Club for keeping our KZfaqrs alive

@jessejcbrl 6 жыл бұрын

NileRed are you synthesizing androgens over there? You're pretty ripped bro haha

@smrts 6 жыл бұрын

wouldn't putting the solution in a vacuum chamber while soaking the fabric make it work better? you eliminate oxygen and it would pull air out of the fibers sucking more of the solution in.

@retosius7962 4 жыл бұрын

that'd also evaporate the water... which is required for it to dye properly.

@AyanaSioux 2 жыл бұрын

Lol you simply have to presoak the pants. He obviously isn't experienced with dying clothing, but what he did is easily fixed by presoaking to get an even dye. Whenever you dye fabric, you have to presaok it to get an even color. It's all good though, he's a chemist, not a dye professional.

@Freizeitflugsphaere 6 жыл бұрын

Hope you will never stop making these videos!😃

@FullModernAlchemist 6 жыл бұрын

Those pants and socks turned out so much better than the red ones from a while back. Great job on the video!

@Furtuim 6 жыл бұрын

One of the few channels I'm notified to. Fantastic videos, great explanations and discussion of possible errors.

@justusfelix2441 6 жыл бұрын

Finally!!! Please a Lab tour.

@zezozezon8291 5 жыл бұрын

I wasn’t interested in the $1 shave club, but you got me at butt wipes. @14:25 Subscribed!

@luisp.3788 4 жыл бұрын

Good choice subscribing, but I am pretty sure the sponsor told him exactly what to say.

@johncodyedgar723 6 жыл бұрын

Love these dye videos. I've made and dyed indigo from raw I. tinctora and from powdered/pre-reduced indigo, but this is way cooler.

@gagichinro7550 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve finally known that NileRed from France. At first i’ve thought he was from Poland, cuz of accent, but when he showed this stuff, i understood everything.

@deeboseph 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but imagining you walking into an H&M and buying a single pair of white jeans and nothing else is making me laugh my ass off

@martinschwaikert5433 4 жыл бұрын

There are some points you could have improved the coloring: 1) add salt to higher the soaking of the fabric und 2) use a high temperature (> 60°C) to cause the fibers to macerate. Finally there is always a decent amount of synthetic fibers especially in socks (elasthane) that won't accept any color hence the fabric stays a little bit brighter.

@ub3rfr3nzy94 6 жыл бұрын

My favourite colour. Such an underrated colour, nice to see it shown some love.

@lilliz8777 3 жыл бұрын

my 4-H group did this and it was really cool! we used natural indigo and dyed silk scarves and the kids really liked it.

@DuffBlufff 6 жыл бұрын

We just started with colors in our chemics class hopefully I can convince my teacher to allow us to do this

@DuffBlufff 3 жыл бұрын

@@duckface81 actually yess :)

@timtrainage 5 жыл бұрын

HEY a fellow Canadian! Good to see your channel blowing up!

@artieoms 4 жыл бұрын

Most denim or cotton jeans/ have a finish on the fabric. By pre washing the items you want to dye or pre soak then spin drying the items in a washing machine (so it's gently damp) will aid to rise the saturation point. Another suggestion to make the dye bath work/ and dye more evenly is to use a slightly bigger vat. Then gently stir the garment inside the vat so the dye bath has chance to soak into any areas you might of normally missed. Hope this helps. Great shibori effect and video! 🙏🖤👏

@Makalo43 Жыл бұрын

My mom has been using indigo dye for a few years. She hasn’t made it in a while, though. There’s a few things I think we did different, such as soaking the cloth in water before soaking it in the indigo. We also didn’t let it soak for as long as you did and instead would constantly move them as we soaked them.

@Tyresio12 6 жыл бұрын

Are you ready to DYE?!

@notenoughpaper 6 жыл бұрын

I dyed with Indigo as well with the same method, and I did it with a very similar recipe although I used slightly more sodium dithionite, this was done in a university lab with a freshly opened package of sodium dithyontie, so I think that it is normal that you need a little more sodium dithionite than your recipe said.

@athrunzala75 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping the sponsor plug short and sweet

@ScienceByMike 6 жыл бұрын

It’s always great seeing you work through experiments.

@EatMyYeeties 6 жыл бұрын

00:15 pause it and wiggle your screen! It's a crazy optical illusion!

@stepstool2734 3 жыл бұрын

Kinda late to reply HAHAHHA but the same happens with the indigo powder ( or the purple powder)

@lydiaisstillstrange 3 жыл бұрын

@@stepstool2734 just a little late

@U014B 3 жыл бұрын

indigelatin

@RevJR 6 жыл бұрын

"...however, pants are way too big for a beaker..." Nah, just burn them first. neat video.

@garycard1456 6 жыл бұрын

I synthesised copper (2) isocyanurate last week. Beautiful colour, would make a great pigment for oil painting.

@TNUni167 4 жыл бұрын

Great video Nile. It'd be awesome to go through the different chemical mixture for the different indigo dyeing processes. Like the fructose one.

@AussieChemist 6 жыл бұрын

Nile Where is the lab tour that we have been waiting so long for?

@drew6017 5 жыл бұрын

Just in case you are having trouble acquiring diethyl ether. You can make it by reacting sulfuric acid and ethanol.

@MoriShep 6 жыл бұрын

I would never be able to tell you dyed those jeans in your lab awesome work

@thebiomajor5750 6 жыл бұрын

And when I thought the other videos couldn't be cooler! Awesome stuff NileRed. Very cool!

@kaenryuuart543 4 жыл бұрын

As a shibori expert. I approve this video

@Maarrii94 6 жыл бұрын

Indigo is such a beautiful colour, and those jeans came out great! It’s also very fascinating to watch the jeans go from yellowish to deep blue within minutes. I’ve heard that new, raw jeans can be very stiff because of the indigo. Did you feel like the socks had a weird texture?

@tantamounted 3 жыл бұрын

So today I got to go on an adventure regarding jeans and blue dye! Several videos on the subject from this channel. And I have to say, those jeans look pretty cool - like they've been stonewashed, but without the abuse to the cloth.

@nathanaelmoxon4996 6 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this video, there's something very cool about having your own version of a mass made product. The textured finish looks great.

@AndromedaCripps 4 жыл бұрын

I have actually been looking for a way to dye some 18th century petticoats I made with indigo and $10 is cheaper than I've seen haha! So thanks for that!

@SCWood 6 жыл бұрын

"I'm very forgetful and I forget to do basic things" Meirl

@nicholi8933 6 жыл бұрын

I did tye-dyeing when I was a kid. It was a lot of fun. Dollar shave club is really nice.

@apathetk 6 жыл бұрын

I really like the vibrancy of the jeans. They look more interesting than normal jeans.

@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386 5 жыл бұрын

I kinda wish you made indigo from the plant.

@akshaykumar-es5oo 6 жыл бұрын

when will your new lab gets ready ? highly exited for videos from your new lab

@brodeypawson5375 6 жыл бұрын

This is actually really cool, I really like the blue that the sock became

@moki2093 6 жыл бұрын

Imo you REALLY deserve more subscribers than you currently have. I mean, you make entertaining and informative videos about chemistry.

@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 6 жыл бұрын

I can't be the only one thinking this'd be a cool final project in high school chemistry.

@TheSeaofScience 4 жыл бұрын

0:18 when I pause the video and move my screen in and out, the pile looks like it’s moving in a weird, rubbery way

@lt_dagg 6 жыл бұрын

Your videos help me sate my guilty pleasure of chemistry I picked up from my high school classes

@thomasvic1761 6 жыл бұрын

Bought one of your beaker mugs for my mate recently, can't wait for it to arrive. Great video :)

@makigott19 6 жыл бұрын

Was gonna ask were the pants wet before dipping it in the indigo? the dye would have been evenly distributed if the pants were cleaned in soap then washed and kept wet so it'll accept the colorant evenly also adding weights on the bath dye will help even out the dyeing process. I also happen to view a vid they happen to dip it 6-7 times for it to have that dark denim color.

@bigpopparasta8133 4 жыл бұрын

NOW I ACTUALLY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, from many years of being bored at school I know how to get this stuff out of a BIC pen. 1. Rip the top of a box pen off and let it leak into a cup overnight. 2. Add water and some soap (liquid soap) and squirt it in 3. Mix it around so it gets on the cup walls. 4. Wait for the water to evaporate. DONE

@shaynemanosca2746 4 жыл бұрын

As a studying textile artist, most of everything you mention about indigo is true, and we use indigo as dye and experiment alot with it

@mircast0 7 ай бұрын

Hey NileRed, this was EXTREMLY informative. Not only because of your explainations and visualisation, but also, and this is the part which really catched me here, the fact, that you showed us something EVERYBODY saw, heard, smelled and an this case even wore. This could be a really interessting series. To show how the most unobtrusive things are made. Reasons why they used this and that etc. One good exmaple would be, how and why materials are made of oil (plastic, clothes, electronic, cosmteic etc.). Oil is everywhere needed and yet we don't have really a clue why is this needed for plastic or clothes etc. and THIS would be awesome and informative for all of us. Greetings and thank you for your content!

@purplealice 6 жыл бұрын

That's a beautiful shade of blue! Seeing the dyed material turn from yellow to green to blue reminds me that I once read that "Lincoln green" (the color of clothing Robin Hood and his merry men wore) was made by processing plant indigo with a different set of substances than for blue. Also, wasn't the blue body paint *woad* made from indigo as well?

@TheDimsml 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, there is a number of plants that can be used to get indigo dye, woad was made from the woad plant. It gets washed out easier, but the woad plant grows in Europe, while the Indigofera thrive only in tropics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria

@purplealice 6 жыл бұрын

"Boil it to a brilliant blue, And rub it on your chest and your ab-DO-men..." ;-)

@rdvanu6181 6 жыл бұрын

Could you allow us to add subtitles please. I would love to show this to a few of my friends that cannot speak English, thank you in advance. .

@fruitsmoothie4565 Жыл бұрын

ngl i think that the uneven dying makes them look a bit more worn/loved, gives them a comforting look

@sylviat1976 4 жыл бұрын

For those looking for non-Amazon dye sourcing, Dharma Trading Co. has some great dye kits!

@RoflCraft96 6 жыл бұрын

Holy shit you made a great job! :D I'm so jealous :3

@sweetmeatnc1504 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Nile!! Good to see a video, it's been while. And I think I saw your mercury and aluminum amalgamation video on a commercial for crazy acts of science. Am I crazy or was that it?e

@NileRed 6 жыл бұрын

yeah! I gave them permission

@texasdeeslinglead2401 6 жыл бұрын

NileRed nice , way to go man. My nieces loved that video.

@sweetmeatnc1504 6 жыл бұрын

NileRed awesome man! Glad to hear it.

@lowtierhuman69 6 жыл бұрын

I think the pants came out pretty dang good. awesome!

@panostriantaphillou766 3 жыл бұрын

I like this blue. It looks like indigo coloured.

@ScienceWithJames 6 жыл бұрын

I think I'd dye of excitement if Nile did a lab tour.

@rodrigoathaydes 6 жыл бұрын

Recently I've lost my job while doing some research for my master degree with niobium carbide, and now I've got some samples and dont know what to do with them, any cool Idea? Maybe some composite materials?

@stamasd8500 6 жыл бұрын

Rodrigo Athaydes I have no idea what you would make with pure niobium carbide, but I know that there were some amateur bladesmiths who in recent years have attempted to recreate ancient Damascus steel using among other things (like vanadium) niobium alloyed in high carbon steel. The idea is that niobium carbides form in the steel and segregate in the characteristic Damascus pattern. I think they had some limited succes with that.

@rodrigoathaydes 6 жыл бұрын

Good Idea! I will search more info :)

@stamasd8500 6 жыл бұрын

stellvia hoenheim I'm pretty sure you imply methenamine, aka hexamethylenetetramine. That would be an interesting synthesis, and not illegal either.

@fenirstardust8100 6 жыл бұрын

Tattoo ink? Niobium is bio compatible more than surgical stainless steel.

@hechetonchieres 6 жыл бұрын

7:52 Man I love seeing Canada on the internet, and you even left the id sticker on there. That brings back memories. . .

@aidangarvey7049 4 жыл бұрын

I work at a CanTire currently and I remember thinking it was weird that we leave those shipping labels on a lot of boxes, but I guess when you aren't a retail worker they aren't as noticeable. Cool that someone else saw it!