[Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Elaine Koogler wrote:

> I think I mentioned this earlier, but Kool-aid works wonderfully with animal
> fibers (wool, silk), but, as I understand it, does not work on plant fibers like
> linen and cotton.  I first ran into this at the Textile Museum here in DC...they
> had an open-house where they had various craftspersons working in different
> media.  There was one that was showing folks how to do Japanese Shibori using
> scarf-weight silk and Kool-Aid.
>
> Kiri


Kool-Aid doesn't dye plant fibers? Pshaw. I have a number of formerly
white t-shirts that would argue that point. Perhaps it should be "Kool-Aid
doesn't dye plant fibers *when you're trying to get it to do so on
purpose*." ;-)

Margaret FitzWilliam