Wild Colours - Exciting colours from Natural Dyes
This is a traditional process that has been thoroughly tested for many years. It also allows you to use tannin bearing plants like sumac leaves instead of tannic acid. If you want areas of pure white, tie or mask the area before mordanting as the tannin gives the fibres a pale yellow tinge. Buy alum and gallnut extract/tannic acid here.
Total weights to mordant 100 grams of fibre:-
Pre-wet 100 grams of cotton fibres in warm water for at least two hours.
Dark colours: To get dark colours dye the fibres, wash the fibres, re-mordant with alum and soda ash and dye again. For really dark colours re-mordant using the three step process.
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How to scour cotton
How to mordant cotton
Mordanting with aluminium acetate
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