[Sca-cooks] Re: vinegar and iron

[Elizabeth A Heckert]

Iron content darkens or shades colours to an earthtone range.  As little
as some people like to drink Pennsic water, it plays merry Hades with dye
colours!   The term is (speciously, *I* think) often attributed to
Pilgrims and Puritans.  I think it has more to do with overdying to make
mourning clothes.

   Elizabeth



On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:14:05 -0700 Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net>
writes:
>Thank you Elizabeth!  Sinech and her son, then a charming, precocious
>preteen, spent some time in "Mainland Caid" a while back.  OK, about a
>decade back, and Guy has probably taken over NZ by now.  Where does
>the
>time go?  Anyway.
>
>Un-soapy steel wool dissolves faster in vinegar, but then again, rusty
>nails are frequently available for free.  I've got a couple of Dutch
>ovens
>around here that have seen better decades, maybe I should just keep
>vinegar
>in them and use them as dyepots.  What does it mean, "saddening dyes"?
> I
>want all my arts projects to be happy. ;-)
>
>Selene
>
>Elizabeth A Heckert wrote:
>
>>    Please forgive the bandwidth!
>>
>>    I forwarded Selene's comment about vinegar and iron as a leather
>dye
>> to the SCA Natural dyes list.  I think the person who responded
>thought
>> it was Selene posting, so I am forwarding her reply here.
>>
>>    Elizabeth
>> From: "Lila Richards" <lila at ihug.co.nz>
>> To: <SCA_NaturalDyes at yahoogroups.com>
>>
>> Hi Selene.
>>
>> I also use a little bit of vinegar in the water, with some iron -
>old
>> rusty
>> nails, because my son Guy (remember that little Southron Gaard boy
>in
>> Tudor
>> from way back?) helpfully acquired a large jar of them! - to make
>iron
>> water
>> for saddening dye colours.
>>
>> Sinech
>> (Lila Richards)
>
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