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This is part 1 of a series we have created to show you more about one of our passions - natural dyes. All our Thai silk creations are totally chemical free because we ONLY use 100% natural dyes.
Our completely natural silks are the result of using some of these magical natural ingredients.
In this video you will see Dao demonstrate just one of the many natural dye colour creations we have at Thai Silk Magic.
This particular one is about the Fung tree. A very common tree around our village and a superb natural dye ingredient for application to natural silk.
You will see Dao adding the small pieces of the Fung tree to some warm water amd watch what happens with this 100% natural dye ingredient.
0:28 As you can see it almost instantly turns a brown colour and if you leave it long enough it would turn red.
But of course there are many stages in the natural dyeing process to go. This is just a demonstration.
1:20 Check out what happens when we add the magical additional natural ingredients this natural dye material.
They're called rice padi bush oysters. There they are being cleaned and getting ready to be placed into a pot where they'll be cooked for 4 hours.
Here you will see on Dao's hand the shells there both before and after cooking.
This is just one of many ways we can start to create some of the magic natural dye colours.
Did you see what happend to to the colour here? .Look carefully.
There it's starting to turn shades of purple already.
Now of course they are quite a few other stages to go and this is just a demonstration
of our natural dyes.
But we show one of our finished natural dyes created for this video.
It's of our most popular natural dye colours. The deep purple natural dye.
Look out for the other 4 parts of our series on natural dyes and natural silks coming in the next few weeks.
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