After washing and degumming, there is a bleaching (and drying) process before dyeing.
Most of the dyes are obtained from natural resources of the immediate sourrounding, offering an exquisite palette of different hues. these leaves of the wild indigo plant are a major source of natural black or blue, other colors are obtained from:
Yellow - jackfruit
Orange - bisea
Red - sappanwood
Maroon, pink and purple red - lac
Green - myrobalan
Grey - coconut
Blue-grey - eucalyptus
Green-grey - butterfly pea
Purple grey - simarubaceae
Brown - cutch
Khaki - mango and cutch ...
Dried indigo. all stages of the process are performed by the women of the village, from plant harvesting, through dye vat care, to the dyeing step itself.
The blue dye derived from crushing and composting the indigo plant. the natural fermentation process reduces the indigo in a vat changing the colour from yellow to green to blue after exposure to air. the only ingredients required are the indigo cake, soda ash, wheat bran and madder (an enzyme that creates the fermentation and deoxidizes the indigo).
The colour derived from soaking fabric in hot mixture of indigo leaves. The bundles of threads are soaked in the dye pots for several times over many days to achieve the proper color tone and quality. then the colours need to be fixed (roots of natural morinda germinata are reported to serve as a fixing agent). These traditional methods of dye production have elsewhere al most been driven to commercial extinction, and dyeing with synthetic indigo and a wide variety of other synthetic colors is booming.
Sin this study (conducted by professor wichai lailawitmongkhol -see intro page) the indigenous practices are documented and taught to the village people before they are completely lost.
After the process the threads are hanging out to dry.
Beautiful color variations of the yarn, ready for spinning onto bobbins.
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