http://www.thaisilkmagic.com <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Our completely natural silks are the result of using some of these magical natural ingredients. <br /><br />In this video you will see Dao demonstrate just one of the many natural dye colour creations we have at Thai Silk Magic.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />0:28 As you can see it almost instantly turns a brown colour and if you leave it long enough it would turn red.<br /><br />But of course there are many stages in the natural dyeing process to go. This is just a demonstration. <br /><br />1:20 Check out what happens when we add the magical additional natural ingredients this natural dye material.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Here you will see on Dao's hand the shells there both before and after cooking.<br /><br />This is just one of many ways we can start to create some of the magic natural dye colours.<br /><br />Did you see what happend to to the colour here? .Look carefully. <br /><br />There it's starting to turn shades of purple already.<br /><br />Now of course they are quite a few other stages to go and this is just a demonstration <br />of our natural dyes.<br /><br />But we show one of our finished natural dyes created for this video. <br /><br />It's of our most popular natural dye colours. The deep purple natural dye.<br /><br />Look out for the other 4 parts of our series on natural dyes and natural silks coming in the next few weeks.
