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Natural Dyes and Recipes - All Fiber Arts | ||
| Recipes for natural dyes and mordants. | |||
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| Alum Aluminum Potasium Sulfate used as a mordant in natural dyeing | How to Make an Alum Mordant |
| Cochineal Dactylopius coccus Cochineal comes from the crushed bodies of dried insects. The cochineal bugs can be found on prickly pear cacti, in the southern US as well as Peru, Mexico, Canary Islands and Australia. Cochineal yields reds, purples, corals and fushsias, depending on the mordants used. | Cochineal Dye Recipe How to Dye with Cochineal |
| Brazilwood A natural dye substance that gives reds, purples, and pinks and corals.. Brazilwood can be obtained from several trees: Haematoxylum brasiletta, Caesalpinia sappan, C. echinata | Brazilwood Dye Recipe |
| Logwood Haematoxylum campechianum Logwood comes from a tree native to the West Indies and the Yucatan Peninsula. The heartwood yields a dye that gives pinks, blues, purples and greens depending on the mordants. | Logwood Dye Recipe |
| Osage Orange Maclura pomifera Osage Orange comes from a tree native to Arkansas and Texas. Its wood makes a clear lemon yellow dye. | Osage Orange Dye Recipe |
| Red Sandalwood Pterocarpus antalinus Red Sandalwood comes for a tree native to India and Indonesia. The dyesubstance is from the heartwood and yields oranges, browns and auburn shades of colour. | Sandalwood Dye Recipe |
| Tara Powder Caesaipina Spinosa - used as a mordant in natural dyeing of cottons and linens | How to Mordant Cottons and Linens |
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