The Power of Wood and Water: a blog about the dyer process.

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The Power of Wood and Water: a blog about the dyeing process

This is a blog about how to make dyes from plants, flowers, berries, and other natural sources.

The process is simple: you take a piece of cloth (or paper) and soak it in hot water for a few hours. Then you add some sort of plant material (leaves, bark, roots) and let it sit overnight. After that, you just rinse out the water with cold running water until the color is gone. And that’s it! You have your very own dyed fabric without any unnatural chemicals! This is an easy way to add color to your projects without buying expensive dyes or using harsh chemicals.

The first step in making these dyes is collecting plant materials. I like to collect them during spring when there are lots of flowers blooming around my house. I also try to avoid using plants that have been treated with pesticides since these can be toxic when used on fabrics.

When choosing which plants to use for your dye, try to select ones with bright colors like reds, yellows and oranges since these are usually more vibrant than others like blues or greens.*

The Dyemakers of Shera Plank: A blog about dyer processes, the power of wood, and the importance of water.

Wood is the most valuable commodity in the world. It is used by people for thousands of different things, and it’s one of the most important materials in human history. Wood has been used to build houses and furniture, to make boats and ships, to create food and medicine, to make paper, and in many other ways. In the past, wood was also used as a fuel source. There are many different types of wood, but all wood contains cellulose (the organic compound found in plants) and lignin (the organic compound that gives wood its strength). Cellulose makes up about half of all wood’s mass; lignin makes up about a quarter of wood’s mass.

Water is also an important material for humans. Water can be used for drinking, cooking, washing dishes, bathing, cleaning clothes and other objects, irrigating crops and gardens, carrying waste away from human settlements, cooling industrial equipment and machinery, transporting goods from one place to another (using rivers or lakes), generating electricity using hydroelectric power plants (which convert the energy stored in moving water into electricity), and more. Humans need

I spend a lot of time thinking about water. Not in the sense of worrying about clean drinking water, although that’s important too, but in the sense of what it means in the dyeing process. Water is so ubiquitous and easy to come by that we don’t give it much thought normally, but when you need it to do specific things like keep dyes from migrating in the dyebath, or dilute acids to use in pre-treatments for yarns and fabrics, it can make all the difference in getting a good dye job.

Water is such an integral part of dyeing that I actually considered naming this blog “The Power of Water” – at least until I realized that there are already several blogs with that name (and it would have been hard to fit on my business cards). But there’s another reason why I chose “Wood and Water”: because I believe we are entering an age where wood will be just as important to us as water.

The wood was cut from a tree that had fallen in a storm. The log was hauled to the mill and cut into rough boards. The boards were stacked on pallets out of the weather for several months to allow the wood to dry, or season. Then the boards were run through the planer to smooth the surface and to reduce their thickness by 1/8 inch to allow for shrinkage when they dried further.

Drying is something that happens slowly or quickly, depending upon the conditions. In this case, it was slow. For some reason I can’t recall, I needed those boards sooner than they were going to be ready—a date had been set for me by my client and I would have been in trouble if I could not have delivered as promised. So I finished drying them as fast as possible by putting them in an electric kiln with controlled heat and humidity conditions. This process took several days, but allowed me to meet my deadline without making wood that was not fully seasoned.

When they came out of the kiln, I ran them through the planer again because their dimensions had changed slightly due to shrinkage during seasoning. That left me with beautiful clear boards that were perfectly flat, smooth and true. They were ready for me to work

It is not an exaggeration to say that the technology of dyeing, as practiced in the nineteenth century, was what made the Industrial Revolution possible. Without it we would not have had cotton fabrics and therefore no jeans, t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, running shorts and shoes. Nor would we have had wash and wear clothing or permanent press fabrics. We would be wearing wool and linen cloths, which are warm in winter but much too hot for summer. We might still be washing our clothing by hand and hanging it on the line to dry!

The Dyeing Process

Dyeing is an ancient art. The earliest dyers used natural materials such as flowers, roots, leaves, bark and berries to create a myriad of colors without a scientific method for creating them. I imagine that a lot of trial and error was involved!

Shera plank is a versatile building material that can be used for residential and commercial construction, as well as for industrial uses. It can be cut, milled, shaped and drilled into almost any design. Shera plank is also sustainable and environmentally friendly. Shera plank is made with cement and wood fiber, making it resistant to termites and other pests. The wood fiber helps prevent cracking and warping, so you can have the look of wood without the headaches! Shera plank comes in different thicknesses and lengths to fit your needs. Just let us know what size you need!

Shera plank is a versatile building material that can be used for residential and commercial construction, as well as for industrial uses. It can be cut, milled, shaped and drilled into almost any design. Shera plank is also sustainable and environmentally friendly. Shera plank is made with cement and wood fiber, making it resistant to termites and other pests. The wood fiber helps prevent cracking and warping, so you can have the look of wood without the headaches! Shera plank comes in different thicknesses and lengths to fit your needs. Just let us know what size you need!