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Organic tie-dye
Scott Adams wrote:
Hi all, Any suggestions/recommendations for tie-dyeing with beet juice? I read somewhere that I should use store-bought canned beet juice for dyeing. What about using the juice from fresh-cooked beets-would cooking them in a pressure cooker help concentrate the color? Do I need to soda ash to prep the fabric? It sounds caustic.... how should I prepare cotton for tie-dyeing, and should I do something to set the color after? I've also read about using turmeric or blackberries...Any ideas on other natural ingredients to achieve the rest of the rainbow? Onion skin, red cabbage. |
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Saffron threads work well when dying. I suggest this site
as a jump off point for your investigations. http://www.bivens.ca/koolaid.htm Good luck, Mutti |
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For a gratifying first experience, dye wool. You can boil wool with almost any plant and get a fast, attractive color -- usually brown, sometimes yellow. With cotton and linen, you have to have some idea as to what you are doing. Put wool and dyestuff in cold water, bring it to the boiling point slowly, and allow it to cool in the bath. If you aren't sure the bath is acid, add a glug of white vinegar. Any ideas on other natural ingredients to achieve the rest of the rainbow? Rhubarb leaves give a golden-brown color. They are high in oxalic acid and serve as their own mordant. Catnip dyes yellow. You can use the plant parts that the cat rejects. Tansy leaves dye a very pale green. There are plants that dye red and blue, but these are in the "you have to know something" class. I hear that cochineal insects are easy to get red out of, but very expensive. Joy Beeson, wearing *very loud* striped-brown socks. -- http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange joy beeson at earthlink dot net |
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Yes! Ain't Life grand!
Mutti --- Thanks, Mutti. Boy, this description conjures up a visual image of you sans clothing, bathing in pickle juice, through the whole process. Cea |
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