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1. A Warm Welcome To Uncovering Colours In the Kitchen: You know that the stuff in your kitchen is not
just for cooking, but it can give you the
most beautiful colours. High. You can call me joy and
welcome to this class. I'm going to take you through
the process of how you can extract Colours from simple
things in your kitchen. I'll also give you a few
tips on how we can increase the colour range of your natural materials that you have gathered from The Kitchen. And then we get creative. Here, I'm going to make two different kinds of Escort Card. And also we are going
to do Dyed Doilies. The videos in the class
mainly concentrate on the process of how
you can extract colour. If you'd like to handout, I've provided one
for you so that can easily follow the process alone.
2. Introduction To Creating Kitchen-Based Natural Dyes: Before we get the
tinkering in our kitchen, I just want to share with you
a few basics of Dye making. So why go for natural
versus synthetic dyes? When the biggest reasons
for me is that it offers a connection with
my own surroundings. Even the humbleness
Of Fruit Peels, such as avocado, can give
you the most beautiful Dyes. A natural dyes have
different colour carrying particles to offer
colours that you feel create the depth and
dimension rather than a flat tone that you get
the synthetic colors. You also tend to notice that your natural dyes tend to
be very subtle and solved. It's flexible. If you want to make the
color more intense, you can always add moderns. I'm also going to go through
cleaning and safety, common tools and equipment
that you'll need, as well as the process
of creating dyes. Because you're working
batch and materials and some of them
are actual food. It is important for you
to sterilize, disinfect, and sanitized as much as you can to remove bacteria
and microbes. When it comes to
tools and equipment, I am someone who is
a serial hobbyist. I've lots of
different hobbies and therefore lots of hobby tools. They tried to make sure
that my tools have at least a dual purpose as I dot my home with a lot of tools, I want to share the same
mantra with U5 is about keeping things simple and just
using what you have on in. Of course, I'm going
to be sharing with you all the materials
that you need. But please feel
free to improvise. Now when you're working with
your natural materials, you will need to have
a coffee filter of fine mesh or cheese
cloth and a funnel. So just helps to
separate your dye from the natural material that
you extracted colour from. You may also need to use
a glass molar for this, I improvised by using a beer glass with
the very thick base in order to break down bigger materials
into smaller parts, they have greater surface
area to extract them. You may also need
to use a mortar and pestle or an old coffee grinder, only using them for making Dyes. Sometimes. You may also need to
use a potato measure to break down some of the things
like berries or grapes. But of course you can
also just use a for. You also need a large bowl and a glass container
for storage or mixing. Mixing tools you'll need, could be glass rods, a spoon, or statistic. Now, we'll walk in with colours. So you might stay
in your surface. It's important for you to lie
your surface with plastic. You also need to protect your
hands with rubber gloves. And also if you
spill, make a mess. It's good to keep Rx handy. If you want to be more precise, you may need to have
a weighing scale. And other equipment
you might need will be because droppers, measuring cups and spoons. Now because of creating
loved the colors, you need to see those blood
because inaction and you probably will need paper
for testing and Creating. Now when we're making our
dyes from any one product, you may be able to shift if
Colours by using a modifier. And thus, you probably will
also need a pH tester to go and check what is the
pH of your modifier. I like to keep things simple. And so this is a very handy mantra for you to remember when you
are creating your dyes, a, B, C, D. And what
did they stand for? A, think about what is
your colouring agents? So if you were to looking at
phage or at your countertop, what are some
things that you can use as a colouring agent? Then we have be the boss stage. Here we are going to use the heated dye bath
to extract the color. Then you went to
combine the components. And what kind of
Additives do you add? Once your dye is created? How do you want to
get creative with it? Welcome with your
natural Colours is not like cooking here, whether we're talking
about the Kitchen, even using the same recipe, even using the same process. That if your materials
are slightly different, it is going to give you a
slightly different colors. So it is really about dancing with your natural
materials and being open that experienced that this natural products
have to give to you. There is also a spirit of
experimentation that we need. For example, in this class, I'll be sharing
with you some other common kitchen
items that I have. You might have things
to ask slightly different in your own country. So it's up to you to
see what would work and also try to adapt it
to what you have on hand. Now you hear me
mentioned about moderns. I won't use them for this class, but they're things like alum. You may also want to see what potential Colour anyone
material can give you. And you might want
to use modifiers. For example, in this class, I will be using vinegar. And then you can
see how vinegar as an acidic modifier
can shift the colors. You can also do the same
with alkaline modifiers. Are you already come
into my kitchen?
3. Preparing The Fruit and Vegetables Peels For Colour Extraction: So I'm wearing clothes. These are common food items and they're not likely
to be poisonous, but you might be allergic
to some of them. So I still think it's
good practice anyway to wear gloves whenever you're walking with natural
ingredients. What a happier is grape skin. This is root powder that
beetroot patterns grade, but you may wish to use the root itself
instead of the powder. And lastly, This
is Dr. Onion Skin. For these three items
that I select it, you can see that the
shades seem quite similar, I guess, purplish
pink, reddish color. So you might be pleasantly surprised if you see the
eventual outcome of the Dye. What I'm going to do now
is that I'm going to be pasting these items into
their expected beakers. And then I'm going to put these because into a water bath. We're going to put
in our grape skin. I'm going to rinse
this bachelor. I'm gonna be placing this beet root powder
into the second beaker. Now, again, feel free to use the actual food of
beetroot itself, you will get a similar color. Then lastly, we have
our Onion skin. I tried to put as much of the Onion skin as
possible into the beaker. Now that we have these three
items inside the beaker, we are going to fill
it up with water. For this quantity of items, be filling up about 60
milliliter of water. Now how much water you fill will depend on how
much material you use. Because we have less
of the grape skin. I'm just going to put
about 20 ml of water. Subjected dye will not
turn out to be too dilute for us to be able
to appreciate the color. The rule of thumb
is just to make sure that amount of water that you add will cover all
your natural materials. Now we're going to put these three pizzas
into a water bath.
4. Colour Extraction Process Of Fruit Peels and Vegetables: I'll stove is now turned on the ceramic parts that are only used when I making
my dyes and inks. Now, we're going to put these beakers into
this water bottle. Let's leave the speakers in this water bath for
around 30 min to, and we're going to be staring. Occasionally. You can choose to
use a chopstick for this or something else like a glass Dhara
that can help you, or even a spoon. This is the Onion Skin. Let's make sure to push
it down as much as you can so that as much
of the skin is in contact with the water and as much Dyes possible can
come out of the Skins. Let's check here. Or beet root powder
in this bigger, because the material starts
first from a powder base. It's really simple
to create a Dye. This grape skin
is not yet ready, so use your chopsticks to just continue mixing it
around and push it down. Just check on them at several points within that half hour when
they're in the water. But also, you might be wondering
why I'm putting my materials in a
beaker in the water. But instead of just
putting the materials in a pot and then hitting it
directly on the stove. Well, it's because I don't
need a huge amount of Dye. I just wanted to show you the
different possibilities of using fruits and vegetables
to make natural dyes. So I want to make
a few at a time. Besides, as I mentioned
in a previous cough, unless you're willing
to put preservatives. Natural dyes and inks tend
attract microbes and at best create the chest
the amount that you need and not to be stored
for a longer time. However, perhaps you are
an Etsy seller or you have a big project for client where you need to make a lot
of handmade paper. One goal, then you can
scale up this recipe. Instead of using the beakers, you can use a large
amount of plant material, put it directly into the pot. It must your materials in the water and then hit
the buttons stove. Now, if we were to look
at the Onion skin, you can see that a
lot of the color has already seeded into the water. But I still prefer to have a more concentrated
intensity of color. So what I'm gonna do is that I'm going to do something
called a recharge. I will remove what's
already in the beaker. And then I'll put
you Onion Skins. Add as much new
material as you want so that it through a
Colour concentration that you would CYA. We're now at a 30
minute mark. Now. How do I know if
my dyes are ready? First, I look at
my plant material. Has it given off as much
color as it should? So if I were to take a
look at this Onion skin, it looks a little
pill, but generally, a lot of the colour is
already in the water. Now let's check on
our grip skin Dye. You can see that the Skins
are already quite pale too. So this dye is quite ready
for our beet root powder. It has already fully
dissolved in water. So that's the first test we use to see if our
dyes are ready. To test. You can do is eat and
take something like this white serving spoon
and dip it into the Dye. You can see the
white of the serum explore almost
disappearing into Dye. This means that the dye is
already quite concentrated. Next, I'll check my
grip Skins Solution. And lastly, might be fruit. I think they're all done. So first, I'll remove the Onion Skins and the
grape skin from The Beatles. And we will do a filter
to get just the Dye. I'm going to show you
an example of how I do the filtering
using our Onion skin.
5. Colour Extraction Process Of Spices: I just want to expand your
mind to the possibilities of what else you can use
to make your natural dyes. You can also work with ******. And I've worked with turmeric, paprika and so on. What behavior is
a black pepper on the left and the
clove on the right. As with the previous video, it is the same process where I put the natural
ingredients in a beaker, pour water to cover
the materials. Then we heat up our beakers in a water bath and check back in about half an hour to an hour. Your kitchen is going to spell very spicy when you do this. Once you get the Dye Colour concentration that
you're happy with, we can strain the dye solutions through a filtering process.
6. Filtering The Dye Solution After Colour Extraction: We have a beaker of the Onion Skin dye that
we created together. A glass container
and filter paper. I've already removed the
Onion Skin material. Now I'll be pulling contents of this beaker onto
the filter paper. Even though we have removed
the Onion Skin already, I want to show you
that we may still have some impurities and dirt that you wouldn't
want in your Dye. You can see now the filtering
process doing its thing. But this quantity
is a whole process will take about 20 min or so. And we'll check back in
7. A Note On Onion Skins: On the left I have
read Onion skin, and on the right I have
yellow Onion skin. We can see the color difference
of the Skins themselves, and this is also reflected in the dyes we have inside
the respective beakers. Dyes for the red Onion is
of a reddish brown hue, similar like the skin. And a Dye for the yellow
Onion is orangey yellow. However, once we did watercolor paper into
the Dye Solution, surprisingly, we see how the resulting color
is almost similar. Of course, the yellow, a yellow and then dye
is much more prominent. And if an even yellow. However, for our red Onion Skin, I would've expected more of the red or pink use to emerge, but it actually turns out to
be a light brown or yellow. While this class is concentrated
mostly on using paper, you might want to experiment for yourself the differences
and the Colours. If you use dyes
with other kinds of materials like wool or Yan, if you are into
nothing as a hobby, or try it out on
different fabrics. Depending on what you're
using the dye on. Maybe animal protein
fibers like wool and silk. Compare it with plant-based
fiber like cotton and cellulose that we use
for watercolor paper. It can make a big difference
to the collapse option. And even sometimes
the colored cell
8. Investigating The Effects of Additives And Modifiers On Natural Dyes: You've seen how Colours
extracted using water. And now we are trying to extend the colour range by combining the Dye with other additives. On my left eye, the solution that's
80 per cent vinegar and 20 per cent water. This means therefore
100 ml solution. There is at theta of vinegar
and 20 milliliter of water. What we're trying to see whether the acetic acid and vertigo will cause changes in
the colour of the dye. On my right is soy milk. The solution contains one or
milk with two-thirds water. To help us see the effect of vinegar and soy
milk on our Dyes. I have prepared strips of paper. I've labeled them vinegar and Simon for that can
distinguish the effects. We're going to take the nth
of the strips of paper into their respective solutions
for about 30 s. Not too long, so that the watercolor paper itself is not
degraded by the acid, will then dry them before using them without natural dyes. So what's the reason behind
using vinegar and soy milk? I have PR indicate the
papers so that you can see what is the
pH of each solution. From the visual
scale here you will see a color attached
to a number 1-4. When we Dip The indicate the BBA into the
respective solutions, we're trying to see what is the color change of
this indicator paper. Because that would tell us how basic acidic each solution is. We start on the left with our acetic acid in vinegar
solution. A quite quickly. You can see that the
indicator paper, starting with the colour
response most closely, the scale of two or three, which indicates that
our solution is acidic. This means that when we combine clinical Solution with our dyes, it will act as a modifier that will change
the pH of the dyes. This will cause a color
change in our dyes, which you will see
in a separate video. Next. Why use soy milk? Because if it Dip to
indicate the paper itself, there is not going to
be a color change. However, the reason why we can
use soy milk is that it is a node binder that
helps the colour from the dyes adhere most
strongly to the material. In our case, our material
is watercolor paper. It's not so much about
creating a color change, like we have acetic
acid, vinegar. Don't leave the strips of paper and the solutions
beyond a minute, or they will start to
disintegrate the paper. In my home, I have
a drying rack. So this is just my setup to
air dry the strips of paper, dry them away from the sun, and makes sure that you
have that it's circulating
9. Extending Colour Range Of Kitchen Dyes: Let's now do a sampling of how our natural inks
would look like. On the extreme left is the
beetroot dye in the middle, or Onion Skin dye. And on the right,
the grape peel dye. On the side is strips of watercolor paper that were
treated with vinegar, with soy milk and
then untreated. Let's start first with a
very good watercolor paper. Will Dip one in each beaker and then leave
them for 30 s or so. Not too long so that all
people fibers will integrate. Then after about 30 s, you can dry the Dyed
watercolor paper ends. You can use any method
to air dry your paper. As long as a keep these Dye
ends free from any surfaces. I'm using a book yeah. Where I'll be placing the
strips in-between the beaches. Type out the excess Dye. Let's set this aside. Let's repeat the same steps with the strips that have now
been treated with soy milk. Let's start with beetroot. Then Onion Skin. Leave these for
about 30 s or so. Then tap out the excess
dye and leads into dry. We talked about this earlier
with regards to Onion skin. Isn't it cool? How the dyes show up as yellow? The watercolor paper strips, even though The Dye Solution
itself looks almost pinkish. There's always a surprise
element with natural dyes, with sometimes the
color that you see in the Dye Solution all on
the ingredient itself, may not turn out to
be the same color that you see on your
final dye material. Lastly, our grip skin. I'll leave all these strips
and the book to try. In the meantime, we
repeat the same process with these untreated strips
of watercolor paper. Another 30 s. And we will take
them out to dry. So here's the outcome. Let's see how the
dyes behaved and what difference soy
milk and Vertigo does. Let's start with a great skin. The color of the Dye
Solution is a light purple. And they strips that we dipped
in our dye with vinegar. The color comes out
a bit greenish. On the untreated
watercolor paper. It is a very pale purple. Comparing the soy milk intensity of the colour is quite similar. Still do the untreated strip. The difference though, is
so clear with vinegar, because vinegar
acts as a modifier, changing the pH of
the Dye Solution. So turning to die from
purple to green modifiers are great for
increasing the range of colors of a natural materials. Let's look at A-B-C root. The solution itself, the
colour is quite reddish. On untreated watercolor paper. The same Colours refracted, as well as on soy milk paper. But on vinegar. When you lower the pH, the red color turns yellow. Father, Onion, we saw what the colour was like
on watercolor paper. But this one, we see no
change in the color at all, even with lowering the pH. If we look at our ******, vinegar also didn't create much changes in the
colour of the dye. And now for clove, the pinnacle didn't
change the color either. It just makes it more intense. I hope that you are excited
to see what vinegar can do. Extend the range of colors
for your natural materials. And you'll notice that the color didn't change
all the colors of our dyes because you can
always use other modifiers. You can use a to
additives such as baking soda, borax, or Lyle. These substances can help you to change the pH of a Dye and make the conditions more alkaline or acidic than at the
Colours can shift. Then there are also other
substances that you can add caught models that
will help you to set the color to make your
ink more permanent. Such Examples are copper alum, cream of tartar lung. There's just so much more
possibilities out there. And we have one
created together. Just a few examples
of natural material. Now that we have created
On natural Botanical Dye. What can we do with them? We're going to do a
project together, making Escort Card
or place names for wedding, for example. You may want to think about what color you want
to use as that determines what kind of natural materials you
extract the colour from. You want to use the blue
from the butterfly, blue P. Or do you prefer to use the reddish
pink of beetroot? Have a think about what
kind of Colours with Satya event To
Creating a project?
10. Design: Ombre Dip Dyed Escort Card: With our dyes, we will be creating hombre Dip Dyed Escort. On the sample strip, I have two different colors on opposite sides of
one end. Like this. Blue dye, the butterfly, blue pea flower inks, and the pink from Combine, which is natural
but not Botanical, as it actually comes
from the lack insight that these two dyes I've created separately
from this class. Before this particular project
that we're doing together, we are gonna be using the dyes that we created
together earlier, if you recall, Meet the
yellow color dye from Onion, more of it because I
needed a bigger quantity. But this project,
we will be dipping the paper diagonally on its side into the Onion Solution to get a yellow triangle at his side. If you have a big
enough container and quantity of the Dye, you can Dip several pieces of
your cards at any one time. I'll just be putting
in two at a time. Remember, Dip only
for thirty-seconds because otherwise your people
fibers might disintegrate. I taken out the cards from The Dye Solution to dry
and says how they look. To get the hombre look, we will have to do a double-dip to get the effect. I want. I have pot to Onion
Dye Solution into another container so that it can support a different shape
for the Escort Card. Still dipping the car from
the same site diagonally. But the Card will be pushing deeper into the
Onion Dye Solution. Place it in the
solution for what, 30 s before taking it out. Tap up the excess, let the cat dry. I'll be putting another color on the other side of the same N. But do that only after the
dye has dried up on the kind. And I'll be doing the
same on the next Card. I'll cut now dry. I'll be putting me in another
color on the opposite side. I'm going but beet root. Well, you know the drill by now. And then repeat the same
step for the other piece. Card and our dry, we can now add a
brush lettering. I'm going to be adding
names in the middle of the Escort Card. Look great as they are now, but I love some sparkle. I'll be adding gold
leaf on the cards. I'm showing you how
the cats look like two days after the Dip Dyed. The reason why I with
it is because I want to show you that even though
these are natural dyes, there is some light fosters and the dye stays more than baits. That because it is a Living Dye. It's not surprising. It The Dye colour does
continue the change over time. I does peat bog
goal metal flakes. This is what it looks like. And I've already paid some of the metal flakes in this bowl. And this other
plastic container. I've placed the adhesive
that'll be used, stick the goal the flake
onto the Escort Card. I'll be using a foam brush and a tweezer to make it easier
for us to pick up the Gulf. Let's that the adhesive on the Escort Card in random areas, you can be more
intentional if you prefer. Now, I'll put these aside and let's wait for the
blue to become tacky Now that are adhesive is tacky. It's time for us to
put a godly fakes. Pick up a flight
with a tweezer path gently on your goal Effects because it's just too
easy to tell them. But don't worry, even if
you do tear the leaf, I think The Effects is still
going to be beautiful. It's hard to go wrong with
gold leaf flakes, frankly. Once you're happy with the and then of
your Cooley flakes. But it is high it for
the adhesive to do. It's what Wednesday at his
of his dry prepare a brush. You're going to use it
and see the brush across the goalie flakes to brush off the excess into
another container. I will Ombre Dip Dyed natural Escort Card
with Goldie flakes
11. Design: Splotchy Escort Card: The way of incorporating our dyes is the habit
and that's Splotchy, but the shapes at the
opposite corners. In order to create
a Splotchy shape. Instead of a straight line, you have to dip in and press
the paper into the solution at an angle so that you can get a curved outline of the Dye. It's best if you have a smaller quantity of the dye
in your tipping container, Dip up but in for 30 s and
then tap out the excess dye. The dye is not quite
visible when it's wet, but don't worry, it gets more
pronounced when it's dry. I'm using a peg to exist
in drying up The Dye. You can do the same
Splotchy design on the other side if you choose. You probably have more space in your home to air
dry your projects. But I'm just showing
you how I draw mine using everyday
tools around my home. It's important not to place them on the surface of a table flat because it makes some
of the Natural Dye pool. You can also use a
hairdryer to blow, dry and dry your dyes. But sometimes I find
that it blows The Dye away depending on how
much drive on the paper. Now, all our cards are all dry. This is a Splotchy design using a grape skin
dye at the corners. I'll be adding brush
lettering of names. I'm using the Tombow
brush pen because the pen tip is just the right size that
matches Escort Card. Now finished two pieces
of our Escort Card. I'm showing you how they
look like after two days. So you can see how much of
the dye has faded or not. You can leave the
cost us they are now. But if you're like me and always welcome a little
glitter into our lives. We can also add goatee flakes. You can see the whole
process of how I apply the gold leaf and
the previous video. To help you recall,
here's the process of applying the gold
leaf plates that I want to share with
you before I show you some parts of the
process of how I do it. At this stage. I've already
applied adhesive on my cards. Now that the glue is tacky, I'm taking my tweezer
and putting the goalie flakes on the
adhesive helps a lot. If your fingers are
clean because otherwise the gold leaf will stick to your fingers instead
of the Escort Card. When he had the
gold leaf in place, you can leave the
carrier side while the adhesive dries. Then dead. He said this dry, you will prepare a brush and sweep it across the
top of your body. Flex the fresh off the excess Euboea. Great skin Dye. It's got caught with gold
12. Design: Ombre Brush Calligraphy from Dragonfruit Ink: If getting one colour
from a flower is great, then getting to Colours from
one fruit is even better. Cure. I have two shades
from the same Dragonfruit. The vivid, intense pink is from the juice
of the Dragonfruit. The more orangey shape It's when the juice is heated up in a pen. So not only can additives and modifiers change
the color of your Ink, heat can do that too. So let's create an hombre two toned Brush
Calligraphy piece. I'm using a size zero brush, but you can use whichever
you're comfortable with when doing your
Brush Calligraphy work. I'll be doing a lettering of the words, have
faith flourishing. Now, dip your brush
into one of the inks. I'm starting with the
orange one first. Start with the thinner
upstroke as we are creating the loop For our first letter H. As you move
into a downstroke, increase the pressure
on your brush to get a thicker line so that you get a contrast of thick and thin. Now, here's a tip to remember. Whenever you're doing
hombre Brush Lettering, N of one stroke, make sure that you have
a small reservoir of Ink which you can use to mingle with the next drop of a
different color. To avoid mixing your
inks in the container. Wipe your brush off with tissue, then dip the brush in water. Then dry the brush
with tissue again. Only then you can dip your
brush into the next color. Starting from that small
reservoir of Ink at the end of the last
stroke, draw an arch. The letter H. Again, create a small reservoir of
Ink at the end of the stroke. Repeat the same process of
dabbing your brush on tissue, then rinsing the brush in water, dabbing off excess
water and tissue. Default, putting your
brush into the next color. I'll be repeating the whole
process for all the letters. And I'll be speeding
up the video a little. But I hope you enjoy the process of doing hombre brush lettering. I'm leaving the tea
in the word faith, but a little later,
because I'll be joining the stroke up
with adult flourishing. I'm joining the dots
of the letter I, the letter H fast. Now I'm joining up the exit
stroke off each to debt. Now that we have a better idea of the composition
of the phrase, let's do the tea. I'm extending the entrance
stroke of the letter H. And also doing
the same Find letter F. Extending the entrance stroke to link it to the flourish
of the first word. Here. Hombre lettering with flourishing to in Colours
from just one Fruit. Who does love that?
I hope that you continue to have faith in
your Ink making journey. It's truly something rewarding
13. Design: Dyed Doily Onion Skins: If you're looking for something
that it's kinda yellow, you can also of course,
use your anions. So here I'm going to start just to extract out
the colour from elevate Onion using
the yellow Onion. And we'll be back
once the color has reached out into the water. After it's been in the
hot water for a while, you may want to check if all
the color has leached out. We're going to extract
the maximum amount of dye we can have
on my Onion Skins. So I still see some pigments, so it's not yet
fully leached out. Once you think
that the color has leached out as much as it can. Or the solution here has reached its desired
intensity of color. You can turn off your stove. And then we're going to
wait for this to cool down. And we're going to filter
this before we dunk our Doily this and
then Solution. So once it is cooled down and we're going to filter this out, just leaving the
solution inside the pen. In other year filtered
out all the Onion Skin, leaving just the solution
of Onion Skin Dye. You can place your HIPAA
Doily insight and makes sure it's all equally DM insight. This and I will share with you how it looks like later on. He saw the paper Doily
has all been submerged in this Onion Skin Dye Solution and we're going to
leave this infant hour. Okay, So this has been
here for an hour or so. Now we're going to take it
out really very gently. You can already see that a lot of the yellow dye
has seeped into it. And we're going to hang
this that chosen to hang this on my laundry
line and I'll be straightening out this Doily. You can see that the drops
are pulling at the end. So please make sure that you have the bottom of
your floor with rags
14. Design: Tea-stained Doilies: Continuing to take inspiration from materials and the Kitchen, you can also use tea Dye
to color your paper Doily. Now turn on my
stove and the pad. It is about one
to 2 cm of water. I've placed to tea bags in the water and
then now steeping. Let's check back in
every 10 min or so to see to what extend the colour of the tea has been extracted. After ten to 15 min when you
feel that the tea bag has already been steeped in the
boiling water long enough, you can turn off
the stove and just wait for the solution
to cool before proceeding with the next step of putting your Doily inside. Only when the water is cool, you can put your
paper Doily inside. The reason why is because if
the water is hot and you put your paper Doily
inside is going to disintegrate the
very delicate paper. Let's now try to put
the paper Doily, an immersive in the tea. Make sure that it's
fully immersed. Every part of the paper Doily
is immersed in the pen. Make sure the edges
are also fully must. He's been in button our cells. I'm going to take
these Doilies out. I've used this tea bag as
weights to make sure that the Doily is pushed down
and immersed in water. Now we're going to
gently take it out. I'm just gonna put
these tea bags away. Gently lift them up so
that you don't tear them. And I'll show you
how I hanged it. I'm actually
standing on a chess. I do this my place. We have a laundry line. So I'm just putting Doilies
On the laundry line, making sure that I lie them as flat as I can instead of picking it through the top because
I was a free day or tear. If I were to use a pink
at the on my floor, I have placed some
towels just so that it doesn't stain the
floor when this Doily trips
15. Thank You! And Your Class Project: I hope you had Fine with me
Creating our Escort Card, as well as our Dyed
Doilies together. Now, for your class project, you're going to make
your own natural dyes, looking at things
that you have in your kitchen. These
are the steps. One, select a colouring
agent that you like. It could be fruit pills or
it could be Vegetables, Peels, and then use the ABCD process to
create a Dye with it. A agent, be baited, see, Combine your components and
DIY, create your designs. Then snap a picture of your natural dyes and posterior design to all
Class Project section. I'm really curious to
see not just your dyes, but what's also in your kitchen. I also have other
classes on creating your own natural dyes from other natural materials
in the garden, as well as making your
own Calligraphy inks. If you'd like to get
in touch with me, all have questions that I can
help you when you can visit the discussion segment of this class and then
post a question. Or you can find me
on Instagram at join hands and my website,
join hands.com. So thanks for taking this class and I hope to see
you in another one.
Joy Tay, Maker
