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In this video, I make some indigo and dye jeans and socks.
For a long time, indigo was harvested from plants, but it was eventually synthesized. I'll be doing one of the early synthesis methods, which is easy, but not commercially viable. In the future, I might try out the modern industrial method.
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Nile talks about lab safety: • Chemistry is dangerous.
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"However, pants are way too big for a beaker." Today on Nile Red, we get a grasp on relative sizes of objects.
"pants are way too big for a beaker" *furiously taking notes*
very important observation xD
I was hoping to see him buy a 5 gallon beaker, or go the other way and use doll sized Levi's.
Beaker is small, pants are far away
I have never had so much power I can choose to keep you on 1k likes or 1.1k I choose 1.1k good sir
And so began NileRed's fashion empire.
purgruv only the *finest*
purgruv But does he wash the fabrics with water from the Nile?
Their slogan is 'it looks pretty good'
@@U014B I don´t see another way, you can also, if you check out the secret link in the description.
@@U014B no but he uses hydrochloric acid
I love it when you show the ingredients. It always sounds like "here i have poison,poison,poison,and poison".
I especially love how he showed the shaving products in a similar manner to how he displays very strong chemicals
forgot toxin
@@reecejohs3334 Sponsor block ;)
Where’s the tasty fish?
shouldn't this be on Nile *Blue*
heres the door, show yourself out.
Dead Meme y u bully me?
@@domonator5000 i wasnt bullying you, its a saying you say when someone made a pun ;-;
@@Sharpless2 AHAHA
@@Sharpless2 he didn't really call it bullying, he was referencing a meme..
Yeah, well, I accidentally made blue socks and tshirts using nothing more than a washer, dryer and a blue piece of clothing... Yours look better...
A couple of years ago I made all of my white work uniforms pink because of a stray red sock. I'm now very very careful with my laundry...
I admire your resourcefulness in using what you had on hand to dye clothing haha
PolyJohn they take color so easy, but getting it undone... Almost impossible
Yeah, it's like, the color goes in, it outta come out, right? it came out of the damn sock!
I don't even own a pair of white socks.
I should mention, that jeans are not only pre dyed, but the thread is not dyed all the way through (meaning the core of the thread is white). Furthermore, the warp and weft threads (the cross and up and down threads in a loom) are different color. The warp thread is the blue indigo dyed thread and the weft is basically just white thread. This is why denim look darker on one side than other. And as you know denim is twill woven so it's quite dense. All jeans start out dark blue and various treatments are given to it to change its shade. For example the sky blue jeans are stone washed, meaning it was placed in an industrial washing machine with stones to wear away the surface of the jean, making it lighter but also more "worn in". The really pale color jeans you see are stone washed and then bleached, giving you the light blue color (I did this before). If you are doing this with Chlorox make sure you soak it with sodium bisulfite after this or else the jean will slowly deteriorate. The mottled jeans you see in the 80s were done with stones and bleach (called acid wash).
Fascinating!! There is just something so cool about taking different fibers and weaving them together in a unique way to create a specialized fabric. It really blows my mind that you can have cotton jeans, a cotton shirt, and even cotton velvet upholstery that feel and look completely different, but are made from the same fiber. I would love to learn more about the different types of fibers and weaves, and how different combinations change the properties of a fabric, but I have no idea where to start. Do you know where/how I could learn more about this kind of stuff, especially for a beginner?
@@orchdork775 I learned most of this tie dying, reading various forums about tie dying. In addition to fiber reactive dies (which is what they use for tie dyes) the suppliers who sells dyes also sell other dyes like indigo type vat dyes. So some naturally have asked how to re dye jeans that has faded, and this is the answer that came up. But processing jeans isn't something you do at home, as for example stone washing involves putting stones inside a washer, and this would ruin a home washer very quickly. I have however made light blue jeans by taking a stonewashed jean and soaking it in chlorine bleach. You have to neutralize the bleach with sodium bisulphite after this or else the fabric will continue to degrade long after the bleach is washed off.
I live for this kind of textile nerding
Man sounds like a wiki page
Tip: when dyeing fabric, presoaking helps to eliminate air pockets and aids in even color absorption.
every soaking is a presoaking
I'm a first-year Chemistry student in the UK and can say with confidence that not only are you one of the clearest, engaging educators to teach this subject but also one of the main reasons I decided to take Chemistry. Your Channel deserves more recognition... can't wait for future videos!
That’s because he’s an American. We went to space and leveled Japan with our chemistry.
@@weedshoes5089 he's Canadian, and the Manhattan project was heavily staffed with European physicists not US chemists.
@@weedshoes5089 lol your funny, or are you?
@@weedshoes5089 Oh shut the fuck up. You stole Europe's homework for both space exploration and the atomic bombs, and you didn't "level" Japan, you had a commander-in-chief and field marshal that were so retarded as to think taking the lives of 200k innocent people was the only way to end that war. Typical 'murican stupidity and ego right here, considering Nile's not even american.
@@crylune you know America is a region, right?
The ending made me laugh. Usually these videos send like, "the final result is a relatively low yield of chloroform" opposed to "the final result here is a rather cool pair of pants"
Will you be making Nile Red soon?
I definitely should
I recently made Nile red from Nile blue, and it's not too difficult but I'd be interested to hear if you run into the same thing I did where the final product smells VERY distinctly of artifical cherries.
Your channel is above the Wiki page on the actual Nile red.
NileRed you definitely should!👍
When I first found your channel, I was shocked when I archive-binged and found you'd never actually done that video.
Those pronounciations of the german names are priceless :D
Cause they are flawless, right??
@@NileRed absolutely flawless Sounded just like a native 😁😁😁👌
He doesn't even try "Johannes", and "Adolf" was the standard messup of a long A.
I mean for an german native speaker like me it's some type of pain to hear how those names are pronounced from non natives because there are pronounced in a quite different way but well I think that you pronounced it quite well for a non-native.
@@gutentag1752 Any native speaker will cringe at a non native trying to speak their language(example: the Chinese trying to speak Serbian, it's very weird and funny)
Years ago I was on an exchange program in Germany and at one point toured a BASF indigo facility. The indigo color permeated everything... forklifts... vehicles... buildings... It was really quite surreal.
Idk why but “pants are way too big for a beaker” made me lol out of my chair
Yup me too....
Would a beaker wear pants like this? Or Like this
@@cripwalklover8380 like this
12:25 "Resist dyeing" Would that it were so simple.
No, no, "Would that-it-'twere so simple" - trippingly.
@@hoilst "it 'twere" means "it it were." Where exactly have you got this from?
@@alansmithee419 Really? With a name like yours should know...
@@hoilst what I know is that when I search "would that it were so simple" I get videos, discussions etc about a film called "Hail Caesar," and when I search "would that it 'twere so simple" I get a bunch of nonsense from websites I've never heard of.
@@alansmithee419 Bingo: kzhead.info/sun/eppracWXan-hnoE/bejne.html
can you make Prussian Blue ?
I will
And whatever is in those killer pens that makes fountain pen ink invisible?
NileRed with a Cyanotype ?
noxxi knox he did make NO2 which is also used as a recreational drug Edit: I meant N2O NO2 is toxic
Cool! Be carful prussian blue is toxic
Title: *indigo* Thumbnail: *green* Me: *wait thats illegal*
jeans: blue
@@freshfrij0les Nile: red
Hotel : Trivago
Thumbnail: turns blue!!1!1!1!
I can't wait for the new lab tour!
Tom's Lab same
Neither can I
All in good time
NileRed hello I like u channel who else dose?
@@frostythesnowbob607 uhhh around 1 million people like his channel.
When I was younger we rinsed our clothes in separate rinse tubs & we added blueing to help the jeans retain their blues & help the whites look whiter instead of yellow. That's why many fabric softener are blue, to help your whites look whiter.
Same with hair dye toner so when you bleach it it doesn't look brassy
The uneven colour looks great. I would have gone for a slightly more uneven colour if anything, but its not like you'd done jeans before so you can't really predict it that well and it would be far too easy to go overboard on that. I also prefer the lighter colour on them. The socks went surprisingly well. The different tone of the elastic was a very nice surprise, and frankly I wouldn't have changed anything about them.
One of my favourite projects. Watching the indigo form in the reaction and later the dye being oxidized, is almost like magic.
Yay a new NileRed video! I love your channel; it's so professional and clean, and extremely entertaining and educational. Great job.
Agreed. It seems like many channels have fallen into the clickbait, such as the 'King of Random' etc.
They do and they don't. I personally think my channel is treated pretty well
@@noahreckhorn6399 you replied to yourself
In the final test, the lack of NaOH caused the reduced indigo molecule remained in its acidic form instead of basic form. Only the basic form is ionic, which could be easily dissolved in water. That's why the yellow precipitation did not dissolve in the previous solution. Additionally, newly prepared sulfur is nearly white instead of yellowish brown, and that solid would not dissolve in NaOH solution rapidly. So the precipitation could not be sulfur.
So proud you got a sponsor!
ha, thanks!
Me: *has dozens of reading assignments* Me: *instead learns about the history of a color*
Even color is seen as a sign of low quality in most things as it represents industrial processes as opposed to hand made. This is very true in leather dyong especially
I like how these super informal purely educational non-academic videos are more detailed and carefully explained step by step than many published of Chem papers.
One of the few channels I'm notified to. Fantastic videos, great explanations and discussion of possible errors.
6:13 "... and i was ready to dye..." me, vaguely paying attention and thinking he say die: same
Hey Nile- I’m from India- and one of the many ways we were oppressed by the English East India Company was the production of indigo. Peasants in the Bengal region were forced to grow indigo, and were not given a fair price for their efforts. Their way of producing indigo was quite different from what you showed. First, the indigo was taken to a Vat or fermenting vessel. The Vat beater had to remain in waist deep water for 8 hours. There were three vats: 1st vat: Leaves stripped off the indigo plant were first soaked in warm water in a vat for several hours. Liquid began to boil & rotten leaves were taken out. Liquid was drained into another vat that was placed just below the first vat. 2nd Vat or beater vat: Solution was continuously stirred and beaten with paddles, it turned green and then blue. Lime water was added & indigo was separated out in flakes, a muddy sediment settled at the bottom & clear liquid rose to the surface 3rd Vat or Settling vat: Liquid was drained off and the sediment, indigo pulp transferred to another vat & then pressed and dried for sale. Source: www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.examrace.com/Study-Material/History/NCERT-Lectures/NCERT-Class-8-History-Chapter-3-KZhead-Lecture-Handouts.amp.html
00:15 pause it and wiggle your screen! It's a crazy optical illusion!
Kinda late to reply HAHAHHA but the same happens with the indigo powder ( or the purple powder)
@@stepstool2734 just a little late
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Love these dye videos. I've made and dyed indigo from raw I. tinctora and from powdered/pre-reduced indigo, but this is way cooler.
It's a funny way to teach chemistry and science in general. Your series helped me a lot, really, you taught me science way better than my school teachers bro, I hope you keep this series and your regular videos... see ya, Brazil loves u
Make Titanium White please
My favourite colour. Such an underrated colour, nice to see it shown some love.
The uneven colouring looks a bit cooler imo Gives it a bit more of that homebrew feel
wouldn't putting the solution in a vacuum chamber while soaking the fabric make it work better? you eliminate oxygen and it would pull air out of the fibers sucking more of the solution in.
that'd also evaporate the water... which is required for it to dye properly.
Lol you simply have to presoak the pants. He obviously isn't experienced with dying clothing, but what he did is easily fixed by presoaking to get an even dye. Whenever you dye fabric, you have to presaok it to get an even color. It's all good though, he's a chemist, not a dye professional.
My favorite line was "The final result was a really cool pair of pants"
Thank you for keeping the sponsor plug short and sweet
I feel like there's something wrong with Nile Red making indigo... Either way, awesome video as always
Should have put it on his other channel, Nile Blue. *crickets*
Hope you will never stop making these videos!😃
Finally!!! Please a Lab tour.
Really enjoyed this video, there's something very cool about having your own version of a mass made product. The textured finish looks great.
It’s always great seeing you work through experiments.
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Good choice subscribing, but I am pretty sure the sponsor told him exactly what to say.
HEY a fellow Canadian! Good to see your channel blowing up!
my 4-H group did this and it was really cool! we used natural indigo and dyed silk scarves and the kids really liked it.
Most denim or cotton jeans/ have a finish on the fabric. By pre washing the items you want to dye or pre soak then spin drying the items in a washing machine (so it's gently damp) will aid to rise the saturation point. Another suggestion to make the dye bath work/ and dye more evenly is to use a slightly bigger vat. Then gently stir the garment inside the vat so the dye bath has chance to soak into any areas you might of normally missed. Hope this helps. Great shibori effect and video! 🙏🖤👏
There are some points you could have improved the coloring: 1) add salt to higher the soaking of the fabric und 2) use a high temperature (> 60°C) to cause the fibers to macerate. Finally there is always a decent amount of synthetic fibers especially in socks (elasthane) that won't accept any color hence the fabric stays a little bit brighter.
NileRed are you synthesizing androgens over there? You're pretty ripped bro haha
Bought one of your beaker mugs for my mate recently, can't wait for it to arrive. Great video :)
And when I thought the other videos couldn't be cooler! Awesome stuff NileRed. Very cool!
Just in case you are having trouble acquiring diethyl ether. You can make it by reacting sulfuric acid and ethanol.
I dyed with Indigo as well with the same method, and I did it with a very similar recipe although I used slightly more sodium dithionite, this was done in a university lab with a freshly opened package of sodium dithyontie, so I think that it is normal that you need a little more sodium dithionite than your recipe said.
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Those pants and socks turned out so much better than the red ones from a while back. Great job on the video!
I don't know why but imagining you walking into an H&M and buying a single pair of white jeans and nothing else is making me laugh my ass off
"...however, pants are way too big for a beaker..." Nah, just burn them first. neat video.
I really like the vibrancy of the jeans. They look more interesting than normal jeans.
Your videos help me sate my guilty pleasure of chemistry I picked up from my high school classes
Are you ready to DYE?!
Indigo is such a beautiful colour, and those jeans came out great! It’s also very fascinating to watch the jeans go from yellowish to deep blue within minutes. I’ve heard that new, raw jeans can be very stiff because of the indigo. Did you feel like the socks had a weird texture?
Great video Nile. It'd be awesome to go through the different chemical mixture for the different indigo dyeing processes. Like the fructose one.
I synthesised copper (2) isocyanurate last week. Beautiful colour, would make a great pigment for oil painting.
We just started with colors in our chemics class hopefully I can convince my teacher to allow us to do this
@@duckface81 actually yess :)
"I'm very forgetful and I forget to do basic things" Meirl
I did tye-dyeing when I was a kid. It was a lot of fun. Dollar shave club is really nice.
So today I got to go on an adventure regarding jeans and blue dye! Several videos on the subject from this channel. And I have to say, those jeans look pretty cool - like they've been stonewashed, but without the abuse to the cloth.
NOW I ACTUALLY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, from many years of being bored at school I know how to get this stuff out of a BIC pen. 1. Rip the top of a box pen off and let it leak into a cup overnight. 2. Add water and some soap (liquid soap) and squirt it in 3. Mix it around so it gets on the cup walls. 4. Wait for the water to evaporate. DONE
Holy shit you made a great job! :D I'm so jealous :3
This video is so cool! I would love to see you dye a shirt or something with a bunch of homemade dyes! I love your channel! Its my favorite on KZhead for sure!
Your videos are always amazing, keep up the great work.
Nile Where is the lab tour that we have been waiting so long for?
As a shibori expert. I approve this video
I would never be able to tell you dyed those jeans in your lab awesome work
I'd love to see you make more dyes, these are so Informative and cool!
Hey Nile!! Good to see a video, it's been while. And I think I saw your mercury and aluminum amalgamation video on a commercial for crazy acts of science. Am I crazy or was that it?e
yeah! I gave them permission
NileRed nice , way to go man. My nieces loved that video.
NileRed awesome man! Glad to hear it.
I can't be the only one thinking this'd be a cool final project in high school chemistry.
Imo you REALLY deserve more subscribers than you currently have. I mean, you make entertaining and informative videos about chemistry.
My mom has been using indigo dye for a few years. She hasn’t made it in a while, though. There’s a few things I think we did different, such as soaking the cloth in water before soaking it in the indigo. We also didn’t let it soak for as long as you did and instead would constantly move them as we soaked them.
0:18 when I pause the video and move my screen in and out, the pile looks like it’s moving in a weird, rubbery way
when will your new lab gets ready ? highly exited for videos from your new lab
Your videos are extremely informative and easy to understand. Helps me understand more about chemistry. Thanks
No problem, glad you like them
Only found your channel today and I've been on a binge for hours! You're awesome! Your channel is awesome! My fave is edible chem! SUBSCRIBED!
I have actually been looking for a way to dye some 18th century petticoats I made with indigo and $10 is cheaper than I've seen haha! So thanks for that!
That's a beautiful shade of blue! Seeing the dyed material turn from yellow to green to blue reminds me that I once read that "Lincoln green" (the color of clothing Robin Hood and his merry men wore) was made by processing plant indigo with a different set of substances than for blue. Also, wasn't the blue body paint *woad* made from indigo as well?
Actually, there is a number of plants that can be used to get indigo dye, woad was made from the woad plant. It gets washed out easier, but the woad plant grows in Europe, while the Indigofera thrive only in tropics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria
"Boil it to a brilliant blue, And rub it on your chest and your ab-DO-men..." ;-)
i love these vids theyre so calming and satisfying to watch, yet are really interesting :))
This is actually really cool, I really like the blue that the sock became
Could you allow us to add subtitles please. I would love to show this to a few of my friends that cannot speak English, thank you in advance. .
Was gonna ask were the pants wet before dipping it in the indigo? the dye would have been evenly distributed if the pants were cleaned in soap then washed and kept wet so it'll accept the colorant evenly also adding weights on the bath dye will help even out the dyeing process. I also happen to view a vid they happen to dip it 6-7 times for it to have that dark denim color.
You have amazing videos I regularly use your videos as reference please keep up the great work thanks again
Awesome video man! I really enjoy your very cool videos and chemistry knowledge
I kinda wish you made indigo from the plant.
Nilered: I'm poor Dollar Shave Club: I'm gonna sponsor this man's whole career
Hey NileRed, this was EXTREMLY informative. Not only because of your explainations and visualisation, but also, and this is the part which really catched me here, the fact, that you showed us something EVERYBODY saw, heard, smelled and an this case even wore. This could be a really interessting series. To show how the most unobtrusive things are made. Reasons why they used this and that etc. One good exmaple would be, how and why materials are made of oil (plastic, clothes, electronic, cosmteic etc.). Oil is everywhere needed and yet we don't have really a clue why is this needed for plastic or clothes etc. and THIS would be awesome and informative for all of us. Greetings and thank you for your content!
Shibori is also the art of tying people into similar knots, for aesthetic purposes.
Shibari actually
In the absolute you are right; but there is semantic proximity: Shibari means 'tied/bound', whereas Shibori means 'restrained / squeezed / wrinkled'
I love you Nile red. Cool, eloquent young guy. Wish I knew you in real life man. I wish you nothing but the best bro.
Recently I've lost my job while doing some research for my master degree with niobium carbide, and now I've got some samples and dont know what to do with them, any cool Idea? Maybe some composite materials?
Rodrigo Athaydes I have no idea what you would make with pure niobium carbide, but I know that there were some amateur bladesmiths who in recent years have attempted to recreate ancient Damascus steel using among other things (like vanadium) niobium alloyed in high carbon steel. The idea is that niobium carbides form in the steel and segregate in the characteristic Damascus pattern. I think they had some limited succes with that.
Good Idea! I will search more info :)
stellvia hoenheim I'm pretty sure you imply methenamine, aka hexamethylenetetramine. That would be an interesting synthesis, and not illegal either.
Tattoo ink? Niobium is bio compatible more than surgical stainless steel.
I think the pants came out pretty dang good. awesome!
About freakin time I've been waiting for your next upload for forever