“If magnificent door of your HOBBY becomes the replica of your PASSION and converges into your profession then it is an ideal path to find a SUCCESS.”
What is Hobby?
We decorate walls of our houses, windows with the chimes and feel the decor of all of these with the living heart of our own hobbies.
Sometimes an idea to make something better and unique gives us satisfaction and becomes our hobby to grab the appreciation from our near and dear ones.
However, if you want to decorate everything in your house with an art of “Creative Hands” then why you lag behind to give natural colour to the clothes “ Decorated” in your wardrobe.
Let’s give it a try with us and you will definitely make an addition to your hobbies and who knows it would become your profession someday.
Hobby Dyeing:
It always have fun to dye clothes at home, isn’t it? Hence, if we are Returning towards the nature then why we are hesitating to accept the traditional ways to make ourselves Be Healthy, By Nature.
We AMA Herbal family ensure you the blessings of the “Mother Nature” for beautifying clothes naturally by your own creative hidden talent.
Here are some natural resources given for Textile Dyeing-
1) Vegetable resources like barks of trees, fruits, leaves, fruit rinds, stamps etc.
2) Some of the mineral resources are rich in colouring and these are directly use for colouring of textile, some of them includes Hara Kashish etc.
3) Animal resources are also used for natural colouring of textile. Most commonly two natural dyes are drawn from the animals include Lac and Cochineal.
What We Can Dye from these natural stuffs?
1) Home Curtains
2) Bed Sheets/Covers
3) Towels
4) Pillow Covers
5) Handkerchiefs........and many more.
How to Get Started?
Step-1 : Shear of your chosen plant to dye clothes while measuring it and placed them into a medium to large container of your choice. Water is required in double of its quantity as per the plant material. Start boiling it and stew for an hour.
Step-2 : Firstly you should have to select a thing which you need for beautifying colours on it and then go for the selection of a particular dye for making hues.
In the next step, you would need a fixative for your stuff; it fixes your dye into the fibres. Natural dyeing of clothes need vinegar fixative, it can be done with one bit of vinegar and four bit of water and boil your stuff for one hour.
Step-3 : In third step, you need to put your dyeing cloth into the container and stew your stuff until it gains the colour you want. Initiate from the White Cotton Handkerchief for making it yellow.
Wash your handkerchief with detergent powder and keep it to be soaked overnight. In the very next morning wash it again and use container to add 750 ml of water and 2 table spoon of alum powder. Hence, soak the hanky in Luke warm water on medium flame. After soaking half an hour, make it to a boil for 10 minutes and make sure one cup of water must be dried of.
Colouring:
Take 1 table spoon of turmeric powder and dissolved it into the luke warm water. Stir well enough and be sure your handkerchief should not come out from the container.
When water cools down leave out your hanky to pick it as of straight from both of its side and dump 10 to 15 times into the container, you can tied it with a thread to make it as an easy step for you.
Start boiling 750 ml of water in a container for 40 to 45 minutes on medium flame (Start from the room temperature and exceed 600 to 700 temperature) for 5 to 10 minutes. Let it cool down and then wash with normal water.
Fastness Effect:
Wash your hanky with detergent powder and then take 750 ml of water and converge it into the Luke warm water for 15 minutes. Surface of the colour must be reduced and then add 1 1/2 lemon juice into it. Hence, submerge your hanky in the normal water for 15 minutes.