[Northkeep] Toinette

[faolanmacfarland at cox.net]

Toinette - now how many times where you called up in court at Kasmat?  Lets see.. you got your Thistle in Embrodiery, you were recognized for your weaving for Gulf war & also part of groups to be recognized 3 other times for preforming, right?

Congradulations!!!

Faolan

> 
> From: Patti McCullough <toinettec at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2004/02/02 Mon AM 10:00:30 EST
> To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: RE: [Northkeep] Judy linen
> 
> It's true:  from the research I've read, they say that
> linen generally bleaches well, but doesn't take dye as
> well, which is why you generally saw undergarments in
> period being fine white linen.
> 
> Linen requires different dyeing procedures and
> mordants, and produces different colors than wool or
> cotton would, dyed with the same dyes, and dyed linen
> is likely to fade, at least with natural dyes.
> 
> With modern synthetic dyes--I dunno.  You might look
> for a dye that specifies on the label that it's good
> for linen.
> 
> Regards,
> Toinette
> 
> 
> > If I find my scraps, I'll let you experiment. I
> > would think it would take to
> > dye fairly well, but I don't have any experience in
> > dyeing linen.
> > 
> > Isn't dyeing linen it's own punishment?
> > 
> 
> 
> > But, how hard is it to dye? since found different
> > site that had white & black
> > but no colors.
> 
> 
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