{"id":39884,"date":"2015-03-15T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/avocado-meet-blender\/"},"modified":"2015-03-15T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T11:17:21","slug":"avocado-meet-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/avocado-meet-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"AVOCADO, MEET BLENDER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember these jars<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\"fermentation\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They had been fermenting for over a week, and the color of the liquid didn’t change over the last days, so I decided it was time to try them.<\/p>\n

The front jar contains the pit and peel from 1 avocado and 1 Tsp salt, the other one the same with the addition of 1 Tsp ammonia. I combined the pit and peel in one dye bath because my earlier attempts didn’t yield different colors with them separated. And this time I blended the pit and peel, carefully and a bit at a time to not destroy the blender.<\/p>\n

The much deeper red in the ammonia jar does translate into more color, a reddish brown, on the yarn (in front) than the jar without ammonia (in the back) which just gave the standard beige. Again beige.<\/p>\n

\"avoskeins\"<\/p>\n

No pink this time, maybe because I didn’t heat the avocado before fermentation?<\/p>\n

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FACTS – AVOCADO PEELS + PITS, BLENDED<\/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 10 g yarn to one avocado<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Conclusion Ammonia extracts more color <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Possible improvements Boil before fermentation to get pink. Filter out blended avocado before dyeing<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At this point, I think it’s fair to say that I have tried a lot of combinations with avocado: fermentation of avocado pits, of the peels, and now blending them together and fermenting them with and without ammonia. I’ve achieved a range of colors from beige over pink into brown.<\/p>\n

So I do think this concludes my experimentation with this for now. The only thing that remains to be seen is how light and wash fast this is over a longer time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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