Here are some readily available ingredients and the vibrant shades they produce: Here's a glimpse into some common natural dyes and the colors they produce: Mordants are substances that help dyes ...

It is not unfrequently desirable to know, with regard to dyed stuff, in what manner it has been dyed, and what dyeing material ... In order to ascertain what mordants have been used, the most ...

with the mordants of iron and alum steeped in it, to@K a real dye ; the parts covered with alum passing to a sea green, more or less deep according to the strength of the mordant; fhose covered ...

Plants were soaked in hot water and wool was immersed in the dye bath. Stale urine may have been used as a mordant to fix dyes. Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC, described the ...