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Madder Root Dye

Madder Root comes from the plant Rubia Tinctorium. The roots make a dye that gives a variety of shades of reds, oranges and rusty browns.
Time Required: 12 hours

  • Use clean, premordanted wool or yarn.
  • Measure the Madder Root chips or sawdust (25% - 100% WOG) into a nylon stocking and into small dish.
  • Add water and allow to sit overnight.
  • Pour the stocking and the water into dyepot filled with hot water and simmer for 1 hour at no hotter than 85 degrees Celsius..
  • Add premordanted fibre or yarn into the dyepot and simmer for 1 hour.
    Boiling at higher temperatures - 100 degrees Celsius gives browner colours.
  • Allow the dyepot to cool.
  • Remove the fibre or yarn from the dyepot, rinse and let dry.
  • Tips:
  • Try alum or tin premordants.
  • Try overdyeing the madder with other colours such as indigo or logwood to get shades of blue.
  • Etsy
    Look for some of my handspun yarns on Etsy.
    Folksy
    And on the UK version - Folksy

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