Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing (formerly Titled: Natural Dyes in the United States)
Here in a single volume is all the information you will need to extract dyestuffs from common trees, flowers, lichens, and weeds ? all the information you need to create beautifully dyed materials after your own fancy, distinctive and individual.
The heart of this book is fifty-two recipes for dyes made from natural, easily obtained dyestuffs: brown dyes from the bark of apple, birch, hemlock, hickory, and maple trees; yellows from a wide variety of sources such as arsemart, white ash bark, barberry bark, sassafras, lichens, camomile flowers, and coffee beans; reds from madder, cochineal, Brazilwood, and alkanet; blues from woad, chemic, orchil and cudbear, as well as from the popular indigo; and blacks most commonly made from logwood and soot. There is also the possibility of combining any of these by top-dyeing (successive dyeing) ? instructions for which are given. Each recipe gives you step-by-step instructions that tell you how to prepare your ingredients, how to shred, soak, dissolve, and boil the materials you collect, how to prepare your cloth (whether cotton or wood) for dyeing, and exactly how long to boil it for optimum results. Besides theÿfifty-two recipes, most of which are given in several versions, Miss Adrosko deepens your knowledge of dyeing techniques with a history of the craft before the discovery of America, among the colonists, and after 1850 when synthetic dyes began to be used. Appendixes list dyes mentioned in early dyers' manuals printed in America, and give excerpts from three 19th-century treatises which reveal literally hundreds of sources for natural dyestuffs. Concisely written, well organized, this book will not only let you make all the dyes described in its pages, but will also give you the skills to make your own exciting discoveries in a field that has long been neglected. |
Contents
Historical background
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3 |
Blue Dyes
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13 |
Red Dyes
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20 |
Yellow Dyes
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31 |
Brown Dyes
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39 |
Purple Dyes
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43 |
Black Dyes
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45 |
Neutral Dyes
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47 |
Dye recipes
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69 |
Topdyeing
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107 |
Bibliography
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110 |
Common names of some chemicals used in dyeing
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118 |
Dyes Occasionally Mentioned in Dyers Manuals Printed in America
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120 |
Excerpt from David Ramsay The history of SouthCarolina Charleston David Longworth l809 2 vol vol 2 pp 249252
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121 |
Excerpt from Thomas Cooper A practical treatise on dyeing and callicoe fainting Philadelphia Thomas Dobson l8l5 pp 483506
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123 |
Recipes for dyeing woolen taken from Molonys 1833 dye manual
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140 |
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Common terms and phrases
½ ounce acetic 19th century 30 minutes 4%½ gallons acetic acid add cold water alum mordant Colorfastness American bark birch black alder blue boil for 30 boiling bath Brass Wool brazilwood Bring the kettle broomsedge chrome mordant Colorfastness cloth cochineal color common cool the liquor cotton cream of tartar dichromate and acetic directions for dyeing dissolved Drab dried dye manuals dyebath dyed dyestuffs excess moisture extract fair to light ferrous sulfate flowers Follow directions fustic gallons of water Gold Wool green heat to boiling home dyers hues hulls Immerse the wool immersing mordanted wool indigo dyeing leaves lichens logwood madder mordant see pages natural dyes orange orchil ounce acetic acid ounce potassium dichromate pages 67 Persian berries plant potassium dichromate pound wool purple quercitron rinse and dry roots shoots silk soak solution squeeze out excess sumach tablespoons vinegar tinctoria top-dyeing tree woad wood woolen yarn