HOW TO USE OAK GALL AS A TANNIN MORDANT | NATURAL DYE | ORGANIC COLOR | BEIGE TAN GRAY | IRON WATER

If you are lucky enough to find oak galls while foraging, grab a handful for your dye pot! The oak gall is full of tannin and is a great way to pretreat your textiles, especially plant (cellulose) fibers like cotton, linen, bamboo and hemp, to create stronger color bonds with natural dyes. The 'mordant' process is an extra, but important, step to help organic color last longer and protect it from fading with exposure to light and wash. Oak galls are a great option because they leave very little color on the fiber, but pack a tannin punch. You can also create beautiful grays using an iron water modifier with oak gall tannin. This video tutorial will show you how to treat fiber with oak gall tannin as a mordant, test it with hibiscus dye and shift colors to a full spectrum of light and bluish grays with iron. We will also test oak gall and hibiscus dye on wooden beads to add color to earthy handmade jewelry.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction - Oak gall
2:11 Oak gall tannin mordant
3:55 Tannin + iron
5:08 What exactly is an oak gall?
6:10 Tutorial highlights
7:25 How to make an oak gall tannin mordant - cold & hot soak
9:21 How to make hibiscus dye
9:49 How to dye wooden beads - oak gall tannin, hibiscus & iron
12:34 How shift color with iron water
14:04 Fiber swatch & wooden bead results
15:58 Recap
20:41 Sneak peek of next tutorial
21:34 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST
Oak gall - whole or ground
Hibiscus flowers - dried
Iron powder and/or homemade iron rust water
Gloves
Mortar & pestle
Pot with lid
Measuring cup
Measuring spoon
Strainer
Spoon
Bowl
Scale
Glass jars
Fiber
Wooden beads

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