{"id":39857,"date":"2015-03-06T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/avocado-peels\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T22:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:34:42","slug":"avocado-peels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/avocado-peels\/","title":{"rendered":"AVOCADO PEELS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My experiments in dyeing with avocado pits<\/mark><\/a><\/strong> were quite successful if I do say so myself (although a couple of skeins needed a little boost of cochineal).<\/p>\n\n

But what about the peels? They can also be used for dyeing, and since I remembered reading that they give a slightly different shade, I kept them separate. Other than that, the procedure was the same as for the pits (fermentation in slightly salty water for about a week).<\/p>\n\n

And the result:<\/p>\n\n

\"avocadopeels\"<\/figure>\n\n

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The avocado peel skein is in the front, and the 3 avocado pit skeins from earlier are in the back. So in my hands, the peels and pits gave just about the same color, but less intense from the peels.<\/p>\n\n

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FACTS – AVOCADO PEELS <\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n

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Mordant 10% alum<\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n

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

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

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Yarn:Dyestuff ratio Didn’t measure – but I’m guessing 1:10 or even more<\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\n\n

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Conclusion The color is pretty, but faint<\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n

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Possible improvements Combine peels and pits to get more color<\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n

So that’s what I’ll do next time – and “next time” is actually underway already:<\/p>\n\n

\"fermentation\"<\/figure>\n\n

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These jars are fermenting right now. The one in the front is pit and peel from 1 avocado and 1 Tsp salt. It started bubbling from the bottom after about 3 days, and an orange color is beginning to develop with fermentation. The other jar is the same with the addition of 1 Tsp ammonia. The color is obviously a much deeper red in the ammonia jar, which, by the way, doesn’t ferment. I suppose the ammonia is killing the bacteria that would have fermented.<\/p>\n\n

Next, I’ll try dyeing with liquid from the two jars, to see if the deeper color with ammonia also means more color captured by the wool!<\/p>\n\n

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My experiments in dyeing with avocado pits were quite successful if I do say so myself (although a couple of skeins needed a little boost of cochineal). But what about the peels? They can also be used for dyeing, and since I remembered reading that they give a slightly different shade, I kept them separate. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[628,629,563,624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39857"}],"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=39857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39858,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39857\/revisions\/39858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}