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natural dye
Hillbilly:
Bloodroot, red osier dogwood bark, wild plum bark, and alder bark are some of the plants that were traditionally used to make a red dye for fabrics and porcupine quills. One formula I've seen involves boiling about a handful of each of these together in about a quart of water, then boiling the article to be dyed in with it awhile, then let it sit for a few hours. It's supposed to produce a pretty vivid red color.
sailordad:
so i should be saving the scrapings from my red osier shoots to trade with ??? ;D
wish i would have known that sooner :P
well i'm off to cut some more red osier
DanaM:
I tried soaking red osier bark for 2 days all I got was dirty water :-\ Never tried boiling it though :-[
welch2:
Poke is a good color .
Ralph
Don:
May try mullberry [spelling]. I know it sure makes a mess coming out of the south end of a north bound bird. :P
There is another berry, I think its the elderberry but I'm not sure thats the name. I know what it looks like.
I've also used ripe sumac berries and get a lite brown w/a slight red but that won't be bright enough on natural hemp.
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