Natural Dye recipes

Walnut husks with alum mordant produces a very vibrant yellowish-brown. Mordant with iron for near-black, no idea what copper will do to it. Dried fall leaves should work as well, same for bark. Oak works much the same way depending on species.

Per this book here most kitchen herbs used fresh with an alum mordant will produce various shades of yellow, ditto a chrome mordant. Copper greens or browns the stuff, iron will gray it.

Coreopsis, pot marigold, dyer's broom...pretty much every plant has some value as dyestuff.

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:34:45 GMT, "Cher" spewed forth :

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You need Els. She will be back soon, so you should post your question again then. I, personally, know NOTHING about dying - except for my hair.

Katherine

Thanks Wooly, guess I've done most there is, but for some stupid reaon I didn't wite any down, and I'd like to do that, I wonder what seaweed would come out like....green I expect most things do....lol

cheers...Cher

Now there's a thought....hair dye.......on second thoughts it's too dear, and yes dear Elsje, she is the one for dyeing isn't she?

I'm after something unusual not in the books to try, like...oh I don't know, rubbing snails on the wool like the backstrap weavers of Quatalmala cant' spell that....their hubbies take the skeins and go off to an island where they rub the little wall oysters over teh skeins and it comes out greyish, then as it dries it goes pink......fascinating. I don't think I could pick up snails though to see if the same would happen.

thanks for your input, I'll repost the question when Els comes back.

Cheers .. Cher

If you'll send me your email address again I've got some info that might be useful for you. I won't be able to get it off until the weekend tho, so don't hold your breath.

y k n i l s TA h s y f T O D g r o

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:22:07 GMT, "Cher" spewed forth :

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One of the best ... is getting somthing wet and leave it by mistake for several day ,, gets a Beautiful color of Spayed Black dots , spread unevenly on several places of the cloth... also some tea works wonders on White shirts .. a piecce of Banana peel , if you are not lucky enough to live where there are Flowering Bananas, Fold Peel into wanted cloth , leave for a day or two ,,, move and see the result ,,, And never forget Good old Chlor ,,,,, make a card board and cut wanted form into it lay over colored cloth ,put on rubber glove , dip rag into chlor + some luke warm water , an hold over hole with pattern ,,,

mirjam

Hi wooly

it's cr0079f0489_3 at blueyonder dot co dot uk

cheers.....Cher

Hi Mirjam, thanx for all these tips, have totry them out...surprising what gives out different colours isn't it.

many thanks......Cher

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:58:53 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@actcom.co.il (Mirjam Bruck-Cohen) spewed forth :

My son's swimsuit when he forgets to dump his backpack into the washer after swim days at camp!

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It's only a few specific kinds of shellfish that produce that dye, and they only do it under stress. But it would be fascinating if someone happened to find a common land snail that produced a good dyestuff. Not that I'm about to try!

=Tamar

Ewwwww... that just reminded me of one time when Matthew was little and I was getting his jeans ready to go in the washing machine one day while he was in school. I put my hand in one pocket and pulled out a tissue and a stick of gum still in the wrapper. Then I put my hand in the other pocket and the entire thing was stuck together. WHAT THE &$@# IS THIS??? I somehow managed to pull the pocket inside out and EWWWW... there was a snail that he had picked up and decided that it should go into his pocket, then didn't tell me about it. I think he must have sat on it or something because it was definitely squashed. :o/

Gem

oh can you imagine us out there rubbing snails up and\ down the yarn or fleece....flipping ekk....

Mind you Inotice that in the Journal, either last months or the months before it told of dyes obtained from the bottom of the ocean, so if you\ see a few bubbles on the top of\ the water it could just be me, snorkling for dye plants.....lol.....says she who can't even swim.

Cheers...Cher

oh\ yuk...lol....Cher

My ex was a great trout fisherman, and worms were his bait of choice. That was fine, but after one fishing trip, he neglected to empty every pocket of his fishing jacket - there were dozens of pockets! In one of the pockets were the surviving worms, which he had intended to set free. Have you any idea how bad decomposing worms smell?????

Katherine

Okay the first line of your message had my mind go to when I used to dig worms for my Dad when he was going fishing. Yes, I handled them to put them into a container for him... very LARGE worms too. However, the rest of your story just made my stomach churn. YUCKY!!!

Gem

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:07:47 -0300, "Katherine" spewed forth :

Sure do. When I was growing up half of the block we lived on was a fallow field, about two feet lower than the rest of the neighborhood. When you consider that our house itself was barely above flood level of the river that was only a couple of blocks away you can imagine that the field during rainy season was a really miasmatic place. My mother (and probably the other kids' mothers) was absolutely disgusted when we kids would slop around out there.

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Well, it took several weeks for us to figure out where the smell was coming from. ANd I had to clean it up, as his stomach couldn't take it.

Katherine

Ah, yes, then you can appreciate what I went through.

Katherine

took me a mo to work out your addy ok... cheers/......Cher