100% madder
15% alume
5% tartar
Brigitte with Love and Hope
The weight of the clean and dry wool is 100%.
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Brigitte with Love and Hope |
Boil the wool slightly with alum an tartar for 1 hour. Give time to cool down slowly an let the wool rest for some hours or days.
Heaten the wool with the soaked madder root slowly, moving the wool carefully in the dye bath, using enough water. Keep the dye bath at 80 Celsius for 1 hour, then remove the wool immediately and let it cool down.
More roots or mordant is waste. Other proportions of the ingredients give different shades.
It is possible to dye the same amount of wool in the used dye bath. If you take 3% of iron mordant, you will get beatiful brown shades.