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Natural primitive dyes?

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mcginnis6010:
Anyone out there know what native americans used to make their dyes? I know that cherokee tribes often wore colorful items. My great- grandmother was full blooded cherokee and when i was just a kid had shown me some of her stuff that had been her mothers and its was very colorful and beautiful.

Outbackbob48:
Don't know if these were used but they will produce some colors. Bloodroot(orange), pokeberrys(purple) black walnut(brown), I use blackwalnut an hemlock to get a nice black color for my traps, I,m sure there are others that i'm missing. Later bob

Pat B:
There are mineral pigments like red ocher, or chalk for white, sulphur for light yellow and probably others too.

mcginnis6010:
thanks guys ill try some of those.

Pat B:
I think you can get mineral dyes from CrazyCrow.

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