Returning To The New Concerns Of "Grass Dyeing" Designers

One of the most important reasons is the excessive use of chemical dyes.

In this case, "grass dyeing" is back.

In the line of sight.

In the Neolithic age, our ancestors began to dye the textile with natural plant dyes, known as "grass dyeing".

Zhou Dai has already had the official position of managing plants dye.

The selection of plant dyes is easy, low cost and simple dyeing method, thus replacing mineral pigments and animal dyes as the most commonly used fabric dyestuffs in China for thousands of years.

There are many kinds of plant dyes used by ancient people for dyeing fabrics. There are only dozens of kinds of dyes found in the literature: madder, safflower, safflower, gardenia, Sophora japonica, Coptis chinensis, CV.

All plants and trees can be made perfect.

These plants are mostly Chinese herbal medicines, not only a good helper for the ancient people's health, but also enrich the colorful life of the people.

Azure, tea brown, lotus root, moon white, autumn fragrance, Silver Red...

These clever hue names witness the brilliance of grass dyeing.

There is no need for complicated processes and equipment to plant and dye.

You can think of, you can not think of, can be used for dyeing - tea dyeing, lotus seed shell dyeing, safflower dyeing, Sophora japonica dye......

The ancient Chinese grass and wood dyed have the artistic conception and accompanying nature of ink and wash painting.

The simplest way of dyeing is direct dyeing: burn a pot of hot water, throw in the plant dye, wait for one or two hours, filter out the fuel, leave the dye solution, immerse the cloth and cook it for a period of time, then you can get bright colors.

A plant dye does not stain only one color.

Many different hue can be obtained by changing the dyeing method.

Direct dyeing, mordant dyeing, dyeing and dyeing.

These dyeing processes cause magical color changes to the fabric, and every success surprises us from the creativity of the ancients.

In the Ming Dynasty's "Tiangong Kai Ye", the method of safflower dyeing was recorded in detail, changing the amount of safflower, and getting the five colors of scarlet, silver red, peach red, water red and wood red.

Commonly used mordant is alum, green vitriol and vitriol. This significantly improves dye uptake.

Two different dye dyes can also get new hue, such as indigo and cypress "cross" can come out of grape green.

There are also many ancient books that record grass and wood dyed. We can use these words to feel the dots of plants and plants.

In the late Qing Dynasty, synthetic dyes in Europe entered China. With their use and popularization, the dyeing process of traditional plant dyestuffs declined for thousands of years. Most of the dyeing techniques gradually declined until some disappeared in some minority areas.

At present, the dyeing of plant dyes is being paid attention to by all parties. Many researchers are studying the new methods of extraction and dyeing of plant dyes to solve the problems such as color fastness of plant dyes.

The compass project of the State Administration of cultural heritage, "the research of ancient Chinese plant dyeing technology and the construction of scientific specimen bank" also focuses on the system of plant dyes.

And popular science work.

The natural color of the dyed fabric is not as bright as that of the chemical dyestuff, but it is elegant and soft.

At the same time, compared with chemical dyes, vegetable dyes are non-toxic, harmless, environmentally friendly and biodegradable.