{"id":39612,"date":"2015-02-23T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T10:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/beige-again-walnut-shells\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T01:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T23:19:20","slug":"beige-again-walnut-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/beige-again-walnut-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"BEIGE AGAIN (WALNUT SHELLS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I lived in Grenoble for 2 years, and everybody there is always talking about walnuts. The region is famous for its walnuts – noix de Grenoble. But I have to admit that I didn’t actually see any nuts growing, nor did I eat very many of them while I lived there…<\/p>\n

So one day here in Denmark, when I saw a big bag of noix de Grenoble at the supermarket, I just had to buy it. The nuts are eaten a long time ago, but I remembered reading somewhere that the shells can be used for dyeing (in addition, of course to the well known dye found in walnut hulls, but that’s another story).<\/p>\n

I like the idea of salvage dyes, the dyes you find in something you would have just thrown out. So here they are, about 500 g of walnut shells\"walnutshells\"<\/p>\n

Following information from this article<\/a>, I soaked the shells in water a couple of days, then boiled them for two hours. The next day, I removed the shells and simmered a 10 g alun-mordanted test skein in the dye bath for about an hour. As usual with browns, it looked good while in the bath, but after drying, what I have is just another beige skein:<\/p>\n

\"beigeskein\"<\/p>\n

Useful for color knitting, but not very exciting by itself. I had hoped to obtain a deeper brown, but that is, in fact, a difficult color to obtain in natural dyeing.<\/p>\n

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FACTS – WALNUT SHELLS<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mordant 10% alun<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Water Tap <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn Supersoft 575 m\/100 g<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn:Dyestuff ratio 1:50<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Conclusion A lousy dyestuff<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Possible improvements I don’t see any – other than forgetting about the walnut shell and befriending someone with a walnut tree, so I can get my hands on the hulls<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last year, I did get good browns from mushrooms. Here is my fresh weakly beige walnut skein next to a very nice brown from last year:<\/p>\n

\"brownandbeige\"<\/p>\n

The brown skein is dyed with a mushroom that is quite abundant around here. I’ve typed it as Ischnoderma benzoinum<\/i> (gran-tj\u00e6reporesvamp) with the help of my Swedish book “F\u00e4rgsvampar & svampf\u00e4rgning” by Hj\u00f6rdis Lundmark and Hans Marklund<\/span>, but it could also be its relative\u00a0Ischnoderma resinosum <\/i>(fall polypore, tj\u00e6reporesvamp in Danish) <\/span>. I don’t have a picture of the mushrooms I used, but I’ll look for it again next fall.<\/p>\n

Jeg har afpr\u00f8vet farvning med valn\u00f8ddeskaller, men det giver kun en svag beige farve. For at f\u00e5 en god brun fra valn\u00f8dder, s\u00e5 skal man alts\u00e5 have fat p\u00e5 den gr\u00f8nne del der sidder udenp\u00e5 selve n\u00f8dden. Jeg har desv\u00e6rre ikke noget valn\u00f8ddetr\u00e6, men sidste \u00e5r fik jeg en god brun farve med tj\u00e6reporesvamp.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I lived in Grenoble for 2 years, and everybody there is always talking about walnuts. The region is famous for its walnuts – noix de Grenoble. But I have to admit that I didn’t actually see any nuts growing, nor did I eat very many of them while I lived there… So one day here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,553],"tags":[554,556,625,567,624,626,627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39626,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39612\/revisions\/39626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}