HERB - Re: herbalist V1 #539

[Katherine Blackthorne]

Gee, you mean dying isn't just a matter of mashing up a bunch of herbs?  
There's more to it than that?  Huh, maybe that's why certain dyes were so 
expensive -- and would certainly explain how there could be "secrets" to 
dying!

Sorry, sometimes I get a kick out of the way people don't stop & think.  We 
all learned in grade school that the "secret" of indigo dye was part of what 
made it so expensive for so long, but if it's just mashig up plants, there's 
no secret, now is there?

I think dying is facinating stuff, and I may try it someday.  (Closest I've 
come is helping an old roommate onion-dye her socks yellow.)  But I'm afraid 
of mordants!

--Katherine


----Original Message Follows----
From: DianaFiona at aol.com
Reply-To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
Subject: HERB - Re: herbalist V1 #539
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:04:07 EDT

In a message dated 10/13/00 1:00:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-herbalist at ansteorra.org writes:

<<
  Hi I loved this CELTIC WARRIORS "WOAD" GRINDER, 100 BC

   >>
     (G) Oh, I agree! I spotted many of the problems with that description
that you listed, but still thought it was an interesting bit. And fit in 
well
with the conversation of the moment! ;-)

                     Ldy Diana
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