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... vinegar 1 quart water Mix 1/2 cup white vinegar in 1 quart of water . Place the wet unmordanted yarn in this solution and simmer for 45 minutes . Remove the skeins but do not rinse . Add the vinegar - water and the remaining 1/2 cup ...
... vinegar 1 quart water Mix 1/2 cup white vinegar in 1 quart of water . Place the wet unmordanted yarn in this solution and simmer for 45 minutes . Remove the skeins but do not rinse . Add the vinegar - water and the remaining 1/2 cup ...
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... vinegar - treated skeins in the pokeberry and vinegar bath and simmer gently for 30 minutes . Remove the skeins and set them aside . Dissolve 1/16 teaspoon oxalic acid in 1/4 cup water and add to the dyebath , stirring to distribute it ...
... vinegar - treated skeins in the pokeberry and vinegar bath and simmer gently for 30 minutes . Remove the skeins and set them aside . Dissolve 1/16 teaspoon oxalic acid in 1/4 cup water and add to the dyebath , stirring to distribute it ...
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... vinegar Add 2 teaspoons white vinegar to 1 quart of dyebath . Place 2 wet skeins of chrome - mordanted yarn in the cochineal - vinegar dyebath and simmer gently for 1 hour . Allow the skeins to cool in the dyebath and then rinse ...
... vinegar Add 2 teaspoons white vinegar to 1 quart of dyebath . Place 2 wet skeins of chrome - mordanted yarn in the cochineal - vinegar dyebath and simmer gently for 1 hour . Allow the skeins to cool in the dyebath and then rinse ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
Recipes for Mordanting | 16 |
Preparing Yarn | 22 |
Copyright | |
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1/16 teaspoon iron 1/16 teaspoon tin 1/2 teaspoon copper 1/4 cup water 30 minutes additional 15 minutes alkanet Allow the skeins Alum alum-mordanted wool 1/2 alum-mordanted yarn annatto baking soda bath and simmer Black Walnut Bloodroot Brazilwood chrome-mordanted wool 1/2 chrome-mordanted yarn cream of tartar cutch Dissolve 1/16 teaspoon distribute it evenly dyebath 2 skeins dyebath and simmer dyed skeins gently for 30 indigo lichen madder mordant Place the wet pokeberries Preparing the Dyebath quart dyebath quart of dye quart of dyebath quart of water quart water Remove the skeins Replace the dyed safflower simmer for 30 simmer gently simmering point skeins alum-mordanted wool skeins and rinse skeins and set skeins chrome-mordanted wool skeins of alum-mordanted skeins of chrome-mordanted skeins of unmordanted skeins to cool skeins unmordanted wool soak soapy water stirring to distribute teaspoon copper sulfate turmeric unmordanted wool 1/2 unmordanted yarn water and add wet skeins wool 1/2 ounce