Is it possible to wash it with ashes? I dissolve the ashes with boiling water and leave the clothes in until the water cools. Meanwhile, I am stirring the water that is in the container with the clothes. I usually buy or find clothes and second-hand cloths. In the case of silk for the moment I have not found and bought new. With silk, do you have to follow the same scouring process that you explain in the ecourse?
Hi Edurne, I don’t know anything about using ashes to scour with, only soda ash (sodium carbonate). For the silk, it can often be eco-printed on without scouring but if you do want to scour it first, here are some instructions: https://maiwahandprints.blogspot.com/2010/12/natural-dyes-scouring.html
Yes, you are right that they are both sodium carbonate. But the washing soda sold at supermarkets is generally weaker (contains more water molecules) than the soda ash sold at garden or pool shops. Hence, needing to use different amounts of each.
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Is it possible to wash it with ashes? I dissolve the ashes with boiling water and leave the clothes in until the water cools. Meanwhile, I am stirring the water that is in the container with the clothes.
I usually buy or find clothes and second-hand cloths. In the case of silk for the moment I have not found and bought new.
With silk, do you have to follow the same scouring process that you explain in the ecourse?
Hi Edurne, I don’t know anything about using ashes to scour with, only soda ash (sodium carbonate). For the silk, it can often be eco-printed on without scouring but if you do want to scour it first, here are some instructions: https://maiwahandprints.blogspot.com/2010/12/natural-dyes-scouring.html
Thanks, Louise
Hi Louise,
I thought that soda ash and washing soda were the same. Why the difference in quantity used in the scouring process?
Sally
Yes, you are right that they are both sodium carbonate. But the washing soda sold at supermarkets is generally weaker (contains more water molecules) than the soda ash sold at garden or pool shops. Hence, needing to use different amounts of each.