indigo-dying 'homemade'

[Felix]

[i didn't know where to post that...:confused:

[]my mom is a chemistry teacher and she told me a long time ago that she dyes t-shirts and stuff that is cotton in school with their pupils...so i study chemistry and i thought lets try that so i brought two t-shirts to her school and we dyed them...it was fun, not too much work but it smells like hell ]

[]so here are pictures of the shirts

http://static.flickr.com/65/215160096_c1a84b6a50.jpg?v=1155573685

http://static.flickr.com/64/215160099_a6c19b8a5a.jpg?v=1155573774

http://static.flickr.com/63/215160102_b7582a9dd7.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/62/215160100_bf527ed080.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/95/215160106_32006a83b3.jpg?v=0

[Felix]

if you want to check out a movie that shows kind of what i did check that:

http://www.seilnacht.com/film/indigo.mpg

something about the chemistry:

[Felix]

thats the what you can do with indigo....i post some more pics soon because i want do some darker shirts and maybe some old denim...

(sorry about the bad english ... ) and the german!

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^^ nice! i love the array of color that indigo will yield

why is this in supertrash

AUF!!!

[ok]

what type of indigo dye did you use. looks pretty good.

[Heartworm]

Cool post! I'm a chemistry student myself =) Gotta try this out some time...

[Kodak]

Interesting, nice work.

[Felix]

@ddml

it is in supertrash because i didn't know where to post it...no denim no shopping...

@ok

it is the usual mixture containing indigo powder, NaOH, Na2S2O4 for the 'stammküppe' (sorry no idea about the english word..) than you have to put the stammküppe into a large bowl including water and NH3...i would post recipe but i just have one in german...so 'do the google'

@heartworm

cool welcome to the club...where are you from and which university do you go to?

[Felix]

might be a good description...

http://www.sewanee.edu/Chem/Chem&Art/Detail_Pages/Projects_2000/Leopold/Leopold.html

[KLAUS]

o/t]Hey some one more German! I think the German community on this board is rather small w/ Mr sxxe from Berlin, as well as Holly go Lightly and Hagbard from Stuttgart and.. dont know

[greentea]

if you want to check out a movie that shows kind of what i did check that:

http://www.seilnacht.com/film/indigo.mpg

something about the chemistry:

i see! now i know why In Indigofera species, the precursor of indigo is indican

(left), indoxyl-β-D-glucopyranoside,

while in woad it is mainly isatan A

[Servo2000]

Damn, if I had known that people were into chemistry on this board I would've created the "Do Servo2000's Chemistry Homework" thread, where the person who does the most work over the year get's my Swear shoes that don't fit.

[keri]

no crap, or the keri the genius can't get an a in chemistry foundation, please help me out so that i dont wreck my gpa. and the winner gets my nekkid pics. oh well, already finished the class.

back On topic:

I really like that, is that a picture of dyeing you did yourself, and if so what kids of fibers did you use it on, and since I'm a bit of a dolt with chem, would indigo dye an animal fiber such as silk or wool?

[__3xL]

^^ keri's naked pics are worthless ^^ oooo the schister ;-)

[Felix]

@ greentea:

ahh you know what your talking about...

you study chemistry too?

@keri:

the t-shirts i'm wearing are dyed by myself for sure...the other stuff is 'googled' just to make this thread as informative as possible...

you can indigo-dye natural fiber like wool, cotton and silk

maybe tomorrow or on friday i dye some more stuff and i'm planning on taking pictures of the process...it's really cool when you take your shirt or whatever out of the pot with dying solution it's green but within seconds it starts turning blue because of oxidation...

can anyone recommend me an uploading service like flickr with no or higher uploading limit per month because flickr is just 20Mb....

[Heartworm]

I'm from Denmark... Aarhus university.

[keri]

imageshack.us is good for picture uploading, the account is unlimited, but the pics can't exceed like 1 mb or something.

[poly800rock]

if you want to check out a movie that shows kind of what i did check that:

http://www.seilnacht.com/film/indigo.mpg

something about the chemistry:

i see some possible keto-enol tautomerization in there....i think, organic is a bit rusty now

[Felix]

haha...i failed my first organic exam so i have to do physical chemistry and shit at the moment...i fuckin' hate it!

[xcoldricex]

ah orgo. i actually liked orgo, but i've forgotten all of it now.

[poly800rock]

i do too. its one of the classes that basically if you understand the logic, you really don't have to study too much. unlike the rote memorization of biology

[Felix]

i think i'm going to like orgo...at least the practical stuff. i love the lab...haha

[Felix]

what do you guys study?

[poly800rock]

if you want to check out a movie that shows kind of what i did check that:

http://www.seilnacht.com/film/indigo.mpg

something about the chemistry:

i have no idea what this is anymore.

but.....

http://japanesetextileworkshops.blogspot.com/

awesome