Vegetable Dyeing: 151 Color Recipes for Dyeing Yarns and Fabrics with Natural MaterialsA practical guide to the techniques and materials employed in creating vegetable dyes |
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acid ½ cup acid and half Add the wet add this mixture allowed to soak Alternate fibers alum mordanted animal fibers annatto bath and simmer becomes the dye bloodroots blue vitriol chrome mordanted color is fast COPPERAS MORDANT cup Glauber's salts cup of Glauber's Dissolve four tablespoons dye bath dye substance dye wool yarn ferrous sulfate five gallon enamel fustic gallon enamel container gallons of warm gum catechu half a cup half gallons hot water indigo extract Ingredients mordant on wool mordanted with alum natural fibers pint of hot pokeweed pound wool yarn powder previously mordanted Remove the refuse rinse is clear Rinse the yarn shade to dry Shake the water Silk fibers dye Simmer another thirty simmer for thirty tablespoons of tartaric tablespoons tartaric acid thirty minutes three gallons TIN MORDANT vegetable dye vegetable fibers warm water water and add water and soak yarn and hang yarn in warm