[Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)

[Olwen the Odd]

Kiri, I recall using kool-aid to do tye-dying at one of your Kites events
several years back.  I still have that piece of silk somewhere.
Olwen

>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
>
>ruadh wrote:
>
> > Kool-Aid common dye.  Look in trash can for left-over package...
> > Smurf Blue was developed for dyers, Smurf-ism was added by the market
>place.
> > Ask the local kids what flavours of  "Red" you serve.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jennifer Thompson" <JenniferT at ptb.com>
> > To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:01 AM
> > Subject: [Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)
> >
> > > >> Lann...
> > > >> I must have done so accidentally, since I have been told that
> > > >> it won't work.
> > >
> > > > From: "ruadh"
> > > >
> > > > the vinegar ! it's cheap photo fixer too.  Ru
> > > >
> > >
> > > Argh, none of the above. I'm in my kitchen last night way past my
>bedtime
> > > and the hubby comes in and asks what I'm doing. I tell him I'm trying
>to
> > > replicate the beet juice dyeing, and he asks if I'm at the point yet
>where
> > I
> > > get fed up, cuss a blue streak, dump the leftover KoolAid packet on it
>and
> > > stomp off to bed, because that's where he's headed. To which my
>response
> > was
> > > "I never did any... such..... thing....... oh dear."
> > >
> > > Lesson one - beet juice needs a mordant, I believe. I *did* get a pale
> > rose,
> > > but after the lovely color in the bowl, it's pretty disappointing.
> > Probably
> > > because of the vinegar.
> > > Lesson two - I *really* need to keep a notebook.
> > > Lesson three - Kool Aid (no, I don't know which flavor, see previous
>note)
> > > turns slightly pale beet dyed wool into *exactly* the color that one
>would
> > > expect beet juice to do. Especially if the wool in question has been
> > soaking
> > > in beet juice.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas on what to do with two cans worth of beets? San
> > juice?
> > > The baby and I ate them all last time, so we are beeted out and the
>hubby
> > > won't touch them.
> > >
> > > And what's the rock?
> > >
> > > Lann the inept
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