Natural Dyeing Notes |
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30 minutes add enough water add the alum alum Conley alum mordant amount berries Birch Bloodroot blossoms blue brass kettle Brazil wood brown Buckthorn Catherine Bailey Chrome Alum chrome mordant cochineal cool copper sulphate copperas cover with water cream of tartar dark degrees F dissolved dried dye bath Dye-Pot dyers dyestuff Elderberry Enter the wet Ferrous sulphate flower heads four gallons gallons of water gives green Hang the wool heat hydrosulphite indigo leaves logwood madder mordant bath mordanted wool Natural Dyes orange Osage-orange overnight oxalic acid oxidation peck Polyporus potassium dichromate pound of wool return ooze return the ooze Rinse the wool roots soak soap suds stalk stir Strain and return sumac tbsp teaspoon thirty minutes vinegar walnut hulls warm water wash the wool washed wool water and boil water is clear wet wool wool 10 lbs wool and simmer yarn yellow dye