Medieval Dyes for Fabrics | Middle Ages and Renaissance History

[cailinfia]

I love this type of history! Cuz most "historical" TV shows just lack color but in actuality they had so much color!!

[lrso]

When you hear from others that blue was rare and came from lapis, and purple was extremely rare, coming from a species of crushed snail.... i'll look further into what you propose here! I did indeed do a quick search, and these things did indeed exist. Oh, I am gonna have a fun day tomorrow looking into this.

[NEMO-NEMO]

Wow! I love everything about textiles. I would have loved loved to have studied ancient clothing, textiles and all manner of cloth including carpets and clothing through the ages.

[elizabetheaton]

Creating colors for clothing and other things was such a laborious process in past years. Thank you for sharing

[grovermartin]

I've never had occasion to dye fabric, but it's intriguing to learn how interactive with the natural environment those creative fabric makers were.

[itsmainelyyou]

You should talk about the layers they had to do to get to black.

[ross]

They were pretty elegant back then, weren't they

[peijuntradlo]

what an excellent video! it may be simple but i find the skeleton flower to be a super cool plant for the way it turns translucent in the rain

[paulashe]

It wasn’t until the oil industry in the 60’s you could achieve the bright colour polymers . Hence Mary Quant scarlet. Before that hunting colours were all you were going to get.

[bonafidehomicide]

Don't forget about the pee! Ye olde fabric dyes were often activated with urine.

[KossolaxtheForesworn]

I wonder why not use blueberries, sure they are edible so medieval times might be better idea to eat them. but they also stain everything to that color for good so it would be pretty easy purple.

[andreamorey]

Purple only came from lichen in parts of Ireland (at least in late viking age/early medieval), most purple dye in europe came from a type of snail

[libbylandscape]

Very cool! Thanks for the video and I hope you have more like it.

[ManyInterestsLittleTime]

It all depends on the mordant used to affix the color

[kikidevine]

Wasn't the most wide spread fix for the dyes, stale urine?

[muhmiis]

Hi Lynny! Would you be able to give me the reference for the medieval manuscript you mentioned in the video? The one with dye recipes? Thank you so much in advance!

[Aluenvey]

How did the shade of blue derived from Lapus Lazuli came to be known as a hard blue to get? Is that one particular shade of blue?

[starberst]

Can you please share the history of how these discoveries were made? I can almost guarantee this knowledge comes from Indigenous people who aren't receiving the recognition they deserve.

[yodelingpickle]

Bruv saying italians have more access due to their trade is dumb af, stuff coming from china and india would have SHIT to do with italians.