[Sca-cooks] saffron dyeing

[Steve]

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I used powdered saffron because that's what I first put my hand on.  I
believe it is real saffron since it was given to me by a friend who got it
in Spain and one side of the envelope is in Spanish.  My guess is that it
is the powder residue from processing and preparing the strands for
sale.  I will be putting up pictures sometime of the test piece to show the
color changes.

AEduin


At 12:44 AM 11/05/2002 -0600, you wrote:

>You said "powdered saffron". Did you create this powder from real saffron?
>Or buy it that way? We've discussed previously that one advantage of
>buying the whole spice is that you can see that what you are getting
>really is the real thing.
>Do you have any evidence that they used saffron to dye leather in period
>as opposed to fabric? There may be a reason they used it for one and
>not the other (if that is the case).
>You might want to look through this file on possible mordants:
>
>mordants-msg      (17K)  7/30/98    Info. on mordants. Period and modern.
>http://www.florilegium.org/files/TEXTILES/piled-fabrics-msg.html
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>
>I have already saved your message on this experiment for my dyeing-msg
>file. I'd love to get any additional reports you make on this subject.
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