HERB - Re: Mordants/ herbalist V1 #539

[Isrith inn Glothi]

I'm afraid of the harsh chemical mordants too (copper, tin, etc), so I've used
the ones I consider to be a little safer.

Tannin (blackberry leaves & oak bark), Iron (rusty nails, etc), Alum (actually I
used the regular pickling alum & got great results). I'm working up to the
"extraction of dye by urine" methods.... :-)

I've found that after dye baths are great for changing the pH and therefore the
colour.
Salt water, vinegar water, and ammonia water afterbaths are all worth
experimenting with.

Isrith.

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Katherine Blackthorne wrote:

> 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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