Brocade
products dyed naturally to carry the hight ethnic identity
Currently,
the use of natural dyes from plants for the color of the Brocade products is
very limited. Therefore, the investigation, surveying the plants for natural
dyes in Lam Dong ,its potential application in brocade weaving dyeing of ethnic
minority (EM) is indigenous employment needs set, meant to preserve its own
culture as well as unique for brocade products.
Previously mainly materials taken from the wild as wild
vines growing on the forest called karsi to ma people, cotton planted on upland
to Koho then they bring officers and spun cotton. like ma people , Koho people use trees or
plants such as leaves to dyeing indigo , bark for dyeing red, tuber crops such
as Turmeric dyeing yellow... Today when
natural materials gradually being scarce they used to buy raw materials
on the market such as wool, coton, yarn ... to weave.
How's dyeing:
Traditional colors on Brocade's fabric composed of 6
K'ho color (excluding white) follows:
- Red.
- Blue Black (ui sa phù).
- Yellow (rơ mễt)
- Brown (Brong).
- Orange (por hê).
- Blue (rơ nõh
cnhó).
To get the color on K'ho did the following:
- Creating red: For a red,
K'ho used forest trees named '' Lolot pepper ''. After cutting, they use the razor took part peel into a boil
for an hour will produce color. After going off
bark ,to dip the fibers in a
liquid , to extractor, to dry in the
sun(1 times) .. Also to Creating light red (light), we also use grape seed
(curry) for Choe soaked in 3-4 days and then bring the new particles embedded
fibers picked on, squeezed dry. Doing so continuously three times, the color
will not fade adhesive.
- creating orange:K'ho used nuts of grape (curry) with
turmeric (rơ mít) and leaf Sunshine Tree (ha trơ dãp). Seeds '' Grape '' soaked
from 3-4 days along with turmeric and leaf Sunshine Tree smashed. Then drop off
the corpse, for yarn in dying, squeezed dry; Continue dipped and dried 3
times
Lolot pepper
- creating a brown:
K'ho used brown root was to press
a water, then the yarn dyed into 1
times, dried for durable and non-fading colors.
- creating a dark blue: The color blue is the dominant color
on the Brocade of K'ho that colors was doing quite elaborate. First they
gathered leaves T'rom , crumpled leaves,
put them in water for about two days and nights. occasionally to stir , then
pressed , throw out leaves only keep the
water. Sea shell, after calcined lime powder brought mixed with a little salt, pepper and pound
gourd seeds,put it all into leaves water and stir. To keep 1-2 hours to to
deposit sediment , then decant off the water in the above, taking special
section under pouring juice into the ''
sut'' (a kind of small baskets woven bamboo ) to obtain powder
deposition. This powder to dry for about a week, the new dry storage shed
anniversary package for personal use. When using to take and mixed with water ash forest banana roots
to dye. Want to beautiful and durable color ,fibers soaked witness 5-10 minutes and then loosen
squeezed dry. Doing so continuously three times
- creating yellow: K'ho used turmeric washed and soaked
for two days and nights. Then drop off the corpse, the dried fiber - twice to
continue so as to be. - How's create blue: To create blue, people also use the
materials and perform similar to creating a dark blue, but fewer raw materials
and more diluted, and also less than the number of dyeing, just dip and then
squeezed dry is given twice as standard color
.
Lam Dong is promising land for development resources for dye
plants. However, these resources are now mainly grows wild in nature,
therefore, should have specific plans for the cultivation of plants for
colorants (especially perennial shrubs) to provide dye and contribute to
improving the environment. Besides, in order to preserve and develop
traditional brocade weaving of indigenous ethnic minorities, it is necessary to
have policies from all levels of government support in terms of capital,
technology and finding outlets for the products brocade.
So to conserve,
preserve and promote national traditions : thocambrooke.com always dyed
handmade products. When accessing the website or on the system can visit the
textile dyeing village's traditional craft Koho.
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