{"id":493,"date":"2014-01-09T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bindandfold.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2014-01-09T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T06:39:13","slug":"new-year-new-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bindandfold.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Vat"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 days in to the new year I finally get around to starting a new vat.<\/p>\n

For quite some time I’ve been wanting to try my hand at a truly natural vat, so today I started a fructose lime vat. Often also called a 1-2-3 vat, which is confusing because a ferrous sulphate (iron) vat is also know as a 1-2-3 vat.<\/p>\n

The recipe I used was 20mg Indigo, 40mg lime, 60mg fructose crystals. I followed the instructions found at MAIWA<\/a>. (this link will take you to the instructions PDF) I made the starter jar and let it reduce before adding it to 14 litres of hot water from the tap.<\/p>\n

Point of interest for this vat is it smells amazing. When you lean over it, you feel like you’re in a candy store. It stinks of sugar. I’m quite surprised i didn’t attract every bee in the neighbourhood over for a look.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I documented my vat making so here it is in pictures.<\/p>\n

\"fructosevat-1\"<\/a>
You can see a slight reduction line at the bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"You<\/a>
You can see the coppery scum and that the water is a deep reddish yellow. Supposedly this is reduced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Moved<\/a>
Moved to the larger vat. Looks pretty good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"First<\/a>
First dip. The colour of this vat is really beautiful. It’s like maple syrup. Smells like it too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"First<\/a>
First oxidisation. Not so pretty. kind of a light army green.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Going<\/a>
Going for the second dip. See how the blue here is quite pretty?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I timed 5 minute dips on linen gauze, for a total of 8 dips.<\/p>\n

\"fructosevat-7\"<\/a>
Grey blue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"fructosevat-8\"<\/a>
Indoor shot of the colour. Really dull greyish blue. The darkest part here looks better in the photograph than real life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m actually really disappointed with the colour. It’s a very grey blue. \u00a0At this point in time I’m not sure if that is due to me making a mistake, or I need to run a stronger vat to get the results I expect or what. Potentially I didn’t let it reduce for long enough, but it definitely looked ready to use. On the first dip it seemed to be a lovely bright blue, but then it picked up a grey tinge quite quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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