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Thanks to Nebula for sponsoring this video! Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/vbirchwood and get access to the new season of Jet Lag: The Game: https://nebula.tv/jetlag/season/17?ref=vbirchwood Prehistoric people were incredibly intelligent and clever, and they knew how to work with the natural environment around them. There's a chance they may have used parts of the birch plant for textile dyeing. I've been in a bit of a natural dyeing wormhole recently, experimenting with different crops utilised throughout history, or in this case, (possibly) prehistory. In this video, I experiment with dyeing wool fabric with the bark and the leaves of the birch tree, to figure out what type of colour I'm going to get. 🕯 Support my art on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/vbirchwood ✨ Leave a donation: https://ko-fi.com/vbirchwood 🪡 Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vasibirchwood/ 📖 Business inquiries - sofie@helmtalentgroup.com Image sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_Rubia_tinctorum1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:202510_%E8%97%8D%E6%9F%93%E6%96%B9%E5%B7%BE%E8%88%87%E6%9F%BF%E6%9F%93%E6%96%B9%E5%B7%BE.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pastel_pigment_cocagnes_et_feuilles_-_Mus%C3%A9um_du_pastel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modern_wool_fleece_dyed_with_woad.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:38_Isatis_tinctoria_L.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isatis_tinctoria_Sturm28.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%C3%A4rberwaid_(Isatis_tinctoria).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GutierrezWorkshopTeotitlan092.jpg Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_indigo_dye_lump.jpg Photo by Evan Izer (Palladian), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stem-histology-cross-section-tag.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huldremosekvindens_dragt_Huldremose-00002.tif Nationalmuseet, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thread_dyed_with_Goldenrod,_Solidago_altissima,_and_color_shifters.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drents_Museum_clothing_8952.jpg C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn_Tapestry_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naturally_dyed_skeins.jpg Madison60, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:177_Auslasser_Rubia_tinctorum.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dyeing_British_Library_Royal_MS_15.E.iii,_f._269_1482.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laine_Teintures_naturelles.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reseda_luteola_%E2%80%94_Flora_Batava_%E2%80%94_Volume_v4.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lubang_Jeriji_Sal%C3%A9h_cave_painting_of_Bull.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SantaCruz-CuevaManos-P2210651b.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alder_(Alnus_glutinosa)_Cones_and_Catkins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7729216.jpg Alder (Alnus glutinosa) Cones and Catkins by Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andricus_kollari_galls._21-11-2025._(d.j.b.).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andricus_kollari_galls._21-11-2025._(d.j.b.).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arizona_Walnut_(Juglans_major)_nut_and_hulls.jpg https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/ancient-redwood-trees-reach-tall-into-the-eerie-misty-sky-stockfootage/2190352264 https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/birch-bark-floats-in-water-by-the-shoreline-stockfootage/2210472288 https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/patterns-in-bark-on-a-silver-birch-tree-in-windermere-stockfootage/2193233466 Further Reading: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/collections/botanic-dyes-recipes-2/ https://www.thehistoricaldyer.com/about_dyes.php https://youtu.be/O86r7hqGBGY?si=3j-IvNh8tNqcYygI https://youtu.be/Obo4Qws8tkM?si=8hV0z-HK-U1Wkm1I https://www.trc-leiden.nl/trc/index.php/en/blog/1013-woad-to-joy https://www.dorsetwool.co.uk/2021/03/26/back-to-the-bronze-age-and-ancient-dyed-textiles/ https://ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-programmes-and-projects/previous-programmes-and-projects/danish-bronze-age-textiles/ https://www.bonesandrozes.co.uk/blog/wool-in-the-viking-era-part-3-dyes-dyeing/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289615248_Fibre_analysis_of_Late_Iron_Age_Early_Medieval_and_modern_Finnish_wools Walton-Rogers. P, 2004, Fibres and Dyes in Norse Textiles https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X23001402 https://www.academia.edu/66810894/Dyes_and_Dyeing_Methods_in_Late_Iron_Age_Finland https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596836241266422 https://wiki.aineetonkulttuuriperinto.fi/wiki/Dyeing_with_natural_dyes https://exarc.net/issue-2021-4/at/before-they-dyed