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Alder - Textile Terms Dictionary - All Fiber Arts | |
| A dictionary of textile terms - Alder | ||
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| Alder tree - the bark and leaves can be used to produce a natural dye. Alnus glutinosa | |
| Alder - magical and medicinal uses "In dyeing, the Alder’s bark is used as a foundation for blacks with the addition of copperas. Alone it dyes woollens a reddish colour (Aldine Red). The Laplanders chew it and dye leathern garments with their saliva. The young shoots of the Alder dye yellow and with a little copper a yellowish-grey useful in the half-tints and shadows of flesh in tapestry. The shoots cut in March will dye cinnamon, and if dried and powdered produce a tawny shade. The fresh wood yields a pinkish-fawn dye and the catkins a green. " | |
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