Brocade products dyed naturally to carry the hight ethnic identity

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

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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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