The method of boiling and dyeing is not difficult. You need to extract the dye from the plant first. For example, grape skins can be used to dye purple, purplish-red and other colors.
A prime example of a flower-based dye is the henna plant, which can be used not only to dye nails but also to dye fabrics.
Henna comes in a variety of colors, and the peels of fruits such as dragon fruit, oranges, and grapefruits are all natural dyes.
The dyes that Sunning chose included dragon fruit peel, madder, indigo, and frozen green.
At first, all you had was dragon fruit, and you could get a lot of dragon fruit by making a trip to the island, so there was no shortage of red dye.
But red is only suitable for girls, not for men like Emmanuel.
Upon learning that the color produced by dyeing with dragon fruit was either purplish-red or red, Emmanuel and the others protested in unison, demanding that Sanning come up with a color suitable for boys.
Thus, indigo and frost green appeared.
Madder in the mountains is plentiful and easy to find, but indigo and woad are hard to find.
Besides being used for dyeing, Polygonum tinctorium is also a traditional Chinese medicine with the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and killing bacteria, but Sang Ning had never seen Polygonum tinctorium in the forest.
The same goes for frozen green.
Frozen green is a deciduous tree belonging to the Rhamnaceae family. It is considered an ornamental plant and is also a major plant that can produce green color.
To find these two plants, Sanning drew up a diagram, while Emmanuel and his team searched for them, working from dawn till dusk for three days before finally finding them.
After everything was prepared, Sang Ning first peeled the dragon fruit, gave the flesh to Louis, who loved eating dragon fruit flesh, and tore the peel into small pieces and juiced it with water.
If you don't have a juicer, just put it in a mortar and pestle and pound it until it becomes a paste. Then you can filter it.
Pour the filtered liquid directly into the pot, then add cotton thread and start cooking.
"It's that simple?"
Monaine exclaimed in shock.
Sang Ning nodded, "Yes, it's that simple."
Will there be uneven staining?
"meeting."
With a smile, Sang Ning said calmly, "But it's okay, we can dye it a few more times."
"That makes sense, but I'm a little worried."
Fimonloa chimed in, "If I dye it several times, I feel that some areas will be darker and some areas will be lighter."
"So let's test the waters with cotton thread first."
Sang Ning, who was stirring the cotton thread in the pot with a wooden stick, said, "If the cotton thread is successful, then we can use the cloth. This way, we can avoid wasting cloth as much as possible."
Louis, who was watching with great interest, said, "Actually, it doesn't matter if there's a problem with the cotton dyeing. It can be made into underwear to wear under a thermostatic suit. No one can see if the color is uneven."
That's the truth, the key issue is—
"I have a bit of a perfectionist tendency. I hope that if I'm going to do something, I won't do it at all, or I'll do it to the best of my ability."
Louis's lips twitched slightly as he retorted, "So you always pick on me whenever I'm making tools?"
Sang Ning didn't accept this at all. She retorted, "Am I picking on you? It's clearly you who didn't do it well. Every time I criticize you, you modify the tools and they turn out better than before. You can't deny that fact!"
It cannot be denied, but Louis was still in a bad mood.
So he and Sanning started arguing, and neither of them would back down, which led to Emmanuel and the others forcibly intervening and separating them.
Louis was dragged out by them, and he said indignantly, "Why are you taking sides? It's clearly Sang Ning who's being unreasonable."
Elliott glanced at him and said calmly, "So what? You still want to fight her?"
"It's not impossible."
Louis was not opposed to this, and he said with great interest, "Actually, I've always wanted to test just how good Sang Ning's skills really are."
Emmanuel and his group also wanted to know, but definitely not now.
No matter how curious they are, nothing can stop them from longing for new clothes.
Just as Sang Ning said, they were really tired of wearing the temperature-controlled protective suits.
When the eyes are open, they are silvery-white; when the eyes are closed, they are still silvery-white.
I don't know which idiot designer came up with the color. There are so many colors to choose from, but they still made the temperature-controlled protective suit silver-white.
It's infuriating that it hasn't changed its color for hundreds of years.
"Let me tell you, I'm absolutely fed up with silver-white. If you dare to go and fight with Sang Ning and delay her dyeing the cloth so I have no other new clothes to wear, I won't hesitate to beat you to death."
Emmanuel said seriously, "I'm not joking with you. It's undeniable that your mental strength is indeed powerful, but your physical skills are not as good as mine. Not only are they not as good, but they are several levels below me. It would be very easy for me to beat you to death."
Please remember this!
Louis, "..."
Louis, "..."
Louis rubbed his face hard, looked at him seriously, and said, "Are you really that serious?"
He just wanted to spar with Sang Ning, how did it come to the point of wanting to beat him to death?
Have you ever considered this question?
"What's the problem?"
"If I'm hammered to death, who will make the tools we need? And who will be responsible for obtaining new materials by using the existing environment and materials on-site?"
He said sharply, "Or do you want to go back to the days of eating raw meat and drinking blood?"
"I personally feel that Sang Ning can solve this problem."
Luo Tianya replied coolly, "You're really not as important as you think."
Mu Tao kept poking him from the side, trying to make him shut up.
Louis is very important, really very important.
Without Louis, a master craftsman, helping Sanning, they wouldn't have had a machine that combined threshing, hulling, and milling to solve the problem of wheat and rice husks.
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