[Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)

[Elaine Koogler]

OK...that may be.  This is just what I was told by the folks at the Textile Museum.
Evidently there are two classes of dyes (Kiri really doesn't know what she's talking
about here...but is quoting what she's been told), one of which works on animal fibres
and the other works on everything else.  But then, being the sloppy person that I am,
I've found all kinds of things that seem to dye fabrics...including weird things in
the laundry that are supposed to be "color fast" and have been washed numerous times
with no problems!!!

Kiri

"Pixel, Queen of Cats" wrote:

> 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
>
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