I tried dyeing a dress with 🌸magnolias🌸 Will it Dye? episode 5, natural dyeing with magnolias

Hello everyone and welcome to a new video! This year, I finally made the time to experiment with the most recent victim of my wandering eye: my magnolia tree. I decided to try natural dyeing a 1950s linen slip dress I had just finished as a wearable mock-up (more on that soon...). I didn't make this very clear, but natural dyeing is not only because it utilises natural components and extracts colour from natural sources, but also because it mostly only works on natural fibres! So if you try to use natural dyes on man-made fibres, you might struggle to get colour pay-off, if any. Natural dyeing is very chemistry based, and this is why people recommend having a detailed recipe book. The final colour will change depending on the fibre, dyestuff, quantity of dyestuff, dye extraction method, time simmering, time dyeing, even the ph of the water! Overall, I'm quite happy with the light yellow colour, and I really loved the experiment. Next year I might experiment with metals in the water, such as iron, copper, or tin. The basic steps of natural dyeing, as I mentioned, are: 1. Scouring (pre-washing materials to be dyed 2. Mordanting (using natural elements to help the colour adhere to the fibres and colour-fastness, ie. how long the colour lasts) 3. Dye bath (preparing the dye bath by boiling/cooking/heating the dyestuffs) 4. Dyeing (actually putting the materials in the dye and cooking it, this differs depending on dyestuffs and fibres being dyed) 5. Rinse/washing/drying/ironin