Natural Dyeing in the Viking Age

Natural Dyeing in the Viking Age | A Basic Overview

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Күн бұрын

In leu of our in person events for the season we have had the pleasure to collaborate with Sons of Norway to create a digital event for the youth of their Camp Trollfjell in these times of social distancing. We have extended the videos to a length longer than our normal duration for this event, but felt that our followers here on social media may enjoy them also.
First up we have a video on some of the basics of natural dyeing, in reference to the viking age, along with some connections to the modern age. This video also goes a bit more in depth into the use of lichen and even cochineal/kermes then the typical focus of madder, woad and weld. We hope you enjoy this information and find it useful!
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@J0kerScars 24 күн бұрын

Great video, shame I found it so late. Channel hasn’t gotten another video in several years

@AnimeShinigami13 Жыл бұрын

I've found that unrolled cotton balls make good test subjects that you can make a small amount of a dye to test it out. Also one way to tell if there's a lot of iron in your tap water is if you regularly get a pink slimy film on your bathtub and sink that you have to scrub off. That pink film is a bacteria that consumes iron. So if you get it in your apartment building you know that there's at least a little iron in your water. I also recently experimented with heating my water in a kettle that looked like it was made of bronze, but could also be copper. Using this water to brew purple cabbage yarn made a lighter color with an unearthly glow to it. Not a literal glow, I mean the shade it developed. It was incredible. Also don't forget that besides urine you can get alkali from potash. Put your ashes out in a pot or jar before it rains, and then let the rainwater fill the jar and seep in. Oak produced high quality potash.

@nordskovstudios7026 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great explanation of what they would have done in the Viking age. I look forward to learning more on the Viking Economy, and the goods they would produce for the market place.

@steviegiammarino4150 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for a special look into the past....very interesting and informative!

@sjorvaldarvikings809 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@tinaashworth8282 Жыл бұрын

I am so trying to get purple and fushia! I have not used natural things to dye fiber, except paper, it's going to be fun experimenting, I have 2 different lichen on trees in my yard so already collected some off the ground! Thank you

@sjorvaldarvikings809 2 ай бұрын

glad you enjoyed the video!

@nadiahill3223 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for a fascinating tutorial 🤗💐🌼💐

@sjorvaldarvikings809 2 ай бұрын

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@marlopata4096 4 жыл бұрын

Well done, Kat!!! You have smoke passing your position...cooking up something fun? If you demonstrated more of the processes whilst describing it, it would have been more engaging.

@katlarafnsblo86 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, we were both cooking a meal and dyeing wool with the lichen as I did the filming of this portion of the video. We hope to do more instructional videos in the future where we dive a bit deeper into individual dye materials and the process. I hope you enjoyed the information.

@sjorvaldarvikings809 2 ай бұрын

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