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Project on using natural dyes to colour fabrics
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Bog'liq Listening transcripts 230531 122425Project on using natural dyes to colour fabrics
TUTOR:
OK, Jim. You wanted to see me about your textile design project.
JIM:
That’s right. I’ve been looking at how a range of natural dyes can be used to colour fabrics
like cotton and wool.
TUTOR:
Why did you choose that topic?
JIM:
Well, I got a lot of useful ideas from the museum, you know, at that exhibition of textiles.
But I’ve always been interested in anything to do with colour. Years ago,
I went to a carpet
shop with my parents when we were on holiday in Turkey, and I remember all the
amazing colours.
Q21
TUTOR:
They might not all have been natural dyes.
JIM:
Maybe not, but for the project I decided to follow it up. And I found a great book about a
botanic garden in California that specialises in plants used for dyes.
TUTOR:
OK. So, in your project, you had to include a practical investigation.
JIM:
Yeah. At first I couldn’t decide on my variables. I was going to just look at one type of fibre
for example, like cotton …
TUTOR:
… and see how different types of dyes affected it?
JIM: Yes.
Then I decided to include others as well, so I looked at cotton and wool and
nylon.
Q22
TUTOR:
With just one type of dye?
JIM:
Various types, including some that weren’t natural, for comparison.
TUTOR: OK.
JIM:
So, I did the experiments last week. I used some ready-made natural dyes. I found a website
which supplied them, they came in just a few days, but I also made some of my own.
TUTOR:
That must have taken quite a bit of time.
JIM:
Yes, I’d thought it’d just be a matter of a teaspoon or so of dye, and actually that wasn’t the
case at all.
Like I was using one vegetable, beetroot, for a red dye, and I had to chop
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