{"id":3492,"date":"2014-05-12T22:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T21:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2016-11-30T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T19:31:32","slug":"natural-dyes-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/natural-dyes-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, yellow, blue : natural dyes in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120390158?color=ffffff&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this textile workshop located near <strong>Surin<\/strong> in <strong>Southeastern Thailand<\/strong>, <strong>natural dyeing craftsmanship<\/strong> has been kept alive. The master dyer knows the color\u00a0potential of each\u00a0plant located in the surrounding countryside and which infinity of colors it can give.<br \/>\nThe workshop mainly dyes silk\u00a0hanks which will be\u00a0used once tinted for <strong>precious\u00a0brocades and royal weavings<\/strong>, in the purest Thai tradition.<\/p>\n<p>For red, the artisan uses <strong>&#8220;khrang&#8221;<\/strong> in Thai (also called &#8220;lak&#8221; in Khmer). It is a resin excreted by a small insect, the <strong>Laccifer lacca<\/strong>,\u00a0an Asian cochineal species. For the bright yellow, he uses\u00a0gum extracted from an Asian shrub similar to\u00a0the mangosteen tree called <strong>Garcinia dulcis<\/strong>, or from pomegranate berries decoctions. Finally, to get\u00a0a blue of remarkable intensity, he uses <strong>indigo leaves<\/strong> (Indigofera tinctoria) put to ferment in jars for ten days and which\u00a0remainder is then turned\u00a0into powder. Other plants also offer\u00a0a variety of colors such as <strong>Oroxylum indicum barks<\/strong> (&#8220;key&#8221; in Thai), an Asian tree giving\u00a0ochre to\u00a0khaki color, or <strong>coconut barks<\/strong> giving a pinkish brown.<\/p>\n<p>Silk yarns are first laundered in a <strong>banana leaves washing water<\/strong> and then immersed in herbal decoctions baths brought to boiling for the red and yellow colors. Associated with <strong>natural mordant<\/strong>\u00a0which fixates\u00a0the color, pigments then\u00a0penetrate the fiber and give them hues\u00a0of\u00a0impressive and sustained intensity. The indigo dyeing process is different, requiring no use of mordant and working on cold water.<\/p>\n<p>Surin is an\u00a0area very close to\u00a0<a title=\"CAMBODIA : silk land\" href=\"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/cambodia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cambodia<\/strong><\/a>, therefore the surrounding nature appears to be similar from\u00a0one side of the border to the other. It is then no surprise to notice the same color tones of yellow, red and blue in respectively each weaving productions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/thailand-splendor-of-textiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Back to Thailand Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this textile workshop located near Surin in Southeastern Thailand, natural dyeing craftsmanship has been kept alive. The master dyer\u2026<br \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/natural-dyes-in-thailand\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-cover","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissusetartisansdumonde.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}