Commons:Photo challenge/2025 - October - Dyeing

2025 – October – Dyeing

The new challenge features Dyeing.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout October UTC.

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Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. October 2025 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

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Colouring composition on aquarelle paper with aquarelle water colours in artist's atelier
Colorful soft toys
An indoor decoration using fabric in Macau
leather dyeing (DIY)
Purple and green bandhej
Batik dyed blue skirt
Tie dyed laheriya scarf flowing in wind
Colorful marbling dyed beads
Artificially color dyed feathers
Palash,Kesudo,Flame of the Forest flowers used as natural pigments
Aparajita flower used for blue dye
Colorful backdrop for colorful fruit
Dyeing women's cotton underwear at home in the kitchen using food ingredients.
mit blauer Tinte gefärbte Rose
rose colored with blue ink
mit blauer Tinte gefärbte Rose
rose colored with blue ink
mit blauer Tinte gefärbte Rose
rose colored with blue ink
Potassium dichromate crystal dissolves in water and, through diffusion, colors the liquid throughout its entire volume
Poly(vinyl alcohol) dyed with copper salts in the presence of ammonia
Coumarin derivative - poly(vinyl alcohol) film dyed under the influence of ultraviolet light
Brown dye colors water
Príprava na farbenie látky doma s prísadami používanými pri varení, najmä rôzne koreniny.
crafts at the meeting point between the Parnaiba and Poty rivers
Coloranti in polvere per la stoffa naturale e colore per stensil
Result of a dyeing process using tie-dye technique - dyed bazin fabric, Bamako 2010, Mali
Dyers remove the traditional Bazin fabrics from the dye bath to rinse the dye out in the Niger river, Bamako 2010, Mali
Women washing out the just dyed Bazin fabric in the Niger river, Bamako 2010, Mali
Dyer explaining Bogolan dyeing with plant colours, finished as ochre basilanfiní (right side) and indigo blue galafiní (middle), Ndomo centre, Ségou 2010, Mali
I colori del panno del Casentino. Variazione dei colori dovuta ai vari mordenti: solfato di allume per sviluppare il colore rosso mentre l'allume di rocca con il cloruro di stagno invece che la robbia, hanno prodotto il colore arancio
Il genere di funghi Pisolithus hanno proprietà tintorie utilizzate anche nel passato. A seconda dei mordenti utilizzati nel processo di tintura, P. arhizus può produrre vari colori, dal giallo al marrone, al marrone rossastro e al nero.
Gas flame dyeing with salt - sodium chloride
Coloring Clouds with the Rays of the Setting Sun
Autumn Leaves: Red and Green
Red window curtain
The prototype display area for fabric natural dyeing materials at Xinpu Persimmon Dye House (kirkir)
Small towel of persimmon tie dyeing and Large towel of blue cloud tie dyeing
This fabric had been dyed dirty by floor dust or sewage water for a long time on the spin mop disc.
Undyed denim -- broken twill weave
Ecodying - Pflanzenfärbung auf Papier
Dyeing the sky with coloured powder after the Andalo Rainbow race
Yarn Skein
Yarn Balls
zoomed in to a pink dye
Bubble gum
It looks like Jupiter
Tanneries. Large open-air vats of color dyes with tannery workers amongst them in Fez
Tanneries. Large open-air vats of color dyes with tannery workers amongst them in Fez
In a greenhouse, flowers are grown to make natural dyes.
Not quite
Dyeing wooden baskets
the cloth mottled of after fewer touched with bleach drops
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