How the Vikings Colored Their World | Plant Dyeing Tutorial (Ep. 25)

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If you want to support the channel please consider becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ramuniviking 🌿 Plant Dyeing in the Viking Age | Natural Dyes with Historian Anna at Ribe Viking Center 🐑✨ Step into the world of the Vikings, where colors were drawn straight from nature and every thread told a story. A huge thank you to Ribe Viking Center for letting me record this footage here. Be sure to go and visit and maybe you will find Anna at her house busy dyeing fabrics and garments for the whole village. https://www.ribevikingecenter.dk In this video, I team up with Anna, a passionate historian and skilled textile specialist based at the Ribe Viking Center—a reconstructed Viking town in Denmark. With years of experience in Viking Age textile production and plant dyeing, Anna is the perfect guide as we explore how people over 1,000 years ago turned dried plants into vivid, lasting color. Together, we take you through the full process of natural wool dyeing—from selecting traditional dye plants like madder, weld, and woad, to boiling up the color baths and transforming plain white wool into rich, earthy tones. You'll learn how the Vikings brought color into their clothing using only what the land provided. 🌸 In this episode: Discover the secrets of Viking plant dyeing techniques See historical tools and methods in action Learn about the cultural importance of textiles in Viking society Watch the transformation of wool using natural dyes Filmed on location at Ribe Viking Center, this video is a celebration of living history, traditional skills, and the deep knowledge preserved through hands-on practice. Whether you're into experimental archaeology, textile crafts, or just love Viking history, you’ll find something magical in this journey. 🔔 Like what you see? Hit like, subscribe, and turn on notifications for more adventures in historical crafts, natural dyeing, and Viking culture. Alun: from the Roman Empire and up through history we know of Alun being mined and the general belief is that the Viking imported large chunks of the mineral and crushed it up for the dyeing process. Is that a yellow water hose visible in some of the shots? Yes. there was another group of volunteers working to maintain the gardens around the houses in these out of opening hours in modern clothes. You can sense them talking sometimes in the background and at some point the hose was in the shot. I did not see this until the editing proces. #VikingDyeing #NaturalDyes #VikingTextiles #PlantDyeing #LivingHistory #RibeVikingCenter #WoolDyeing #VikingAge #HistoricalCrafts #ExperimentalArchaeology #ScandinavianHistory All music in this video unless otherwise stated is by license of Artlist.io Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramuni.viking.crafts/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RAMUNIVIKING Gear: Canon 80D Sigma 17-55 f/2.8 Tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Røde Videomic NTG Imac and Filmora Editing Software DJI miniSE