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Hemlock Bark ROSE TO GRAY The hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis ) , also called Eastern hemlock or spruce pine , was an important tree for the early people of North America . The twigs and leaves were used to make a medicinal tea and the bark ...
Hemlock Bark ROSE TO GRAY The hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis ) , also called Eastern hemlock or spruce pine , was an important tree for the early people of North America . The twigs and leaves were used to make a medicinal tea and the bark ...
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Brazilwood RED TO PURPLE The brazilwood in use today is obtained from redwood trees known botani- cally as Caesalpina echinata . Several other trees , especially sapan and peachwood , were used in the past to obtain red dyes .
Brazilwood RED TO PURPLE The brazilwood in use today is obtained from redwood trees known botani- cally as Caesalpina echinata . Several other trees , especially sapan and peachwood , were used in the past to obtain red dyes .
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Cutch , a dye made from the heartwood of the Acacia or Mimosa tree , was used in India long before the birth of Christ . The trees are native both to India and the East Indies . To make the cutch extract , the trees are gathered when ...
Cutch , a dye made from the heartwood of the Acacia or Mimosa tree , was used in India long before the birth of Christ . The trees are native both to India and the East Indies . To make the cutch extract , the trees are gathered when ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
Recipes for Mordanting | 16 |
Preparing Yarn | 22 |
Copyright | |
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1/16 teaspoon iron 1/16 teaspoon tin 1/4 cup water 30 minutes according acid additional 15 minutes Allow the skeins Alum alum-mordanted wool 1/2 bark bath and simmer blue boiling bright bring brown cheesecloth Chrome clear water color cutch dark deeper Dissolve 1/16 teaspoon distribute it evenly dyebath 2 skeins dyebath and simmer dyed skeins gently for 30 green heat indigo leaves lichen madder mordants natural orange overnight Place plant powder Preparing the Dyebath produced purple quart dyebath quart of dye quart of dyebath quart of water quart water recipes Remove the skeins roots simmer for 30 simmer gently skeins alum-mordanted wool skeins and rinse skeins and set skeins of alum-mordanted skeins of unmordanted skeins to cool skeins unmordanted wool soak soapy water stirring to distribute tree turmeric unmordanted wool 1/2 unmordanted yarn vinegar warm water and add wet skeins wool 1/2 ounce yellow
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| Title | Ancient Dyes for Modern Weavers |
| Author | Palmy Weigle |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill Publications, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2007 |
| ISBN | 0823002233, 9780823002238 |
| Length | 128 pages |
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