[Regia-NA] mustard plants

[Hrolf Douglasson]

If you ever do get hold of it I would dy(e):) to see the results.
I have had some wonderful shades this week.
With silk...do you add acid? when I was spinning and dyeing silk caps I
remember alsways having to add an acid to get it to dye properly.
vara
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Priest-Dorman" <capriest@cs.vassar.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] mustard plants


> Vara wrote:
>
> >I know I shouldn't but I get Cochaneal insects (whole) and grind them
> >myself.
> >Kermes now being a protected species from what I can find and the colours
> >being very similar..
>
> Okay, so you're using Dactylopius coccus Costa (New World cochineal), and
> not Kermes vermilio Planchon (kermes), Porphyrophora polonica L. (Polish
> cochineal), Porphyrophora hameli Brandt (Armenian cochineal), or Kerria
> lacca Kerr (lac). As I understand the literature, cochineal colorants are
> related to those of kermes, whereas the colorants in the porphyrophoras
> (the medieval "greyne" dyes) are alike but yield different shades from
> cochineal or kermes.
>
> I get purplish-reds and fuchsias from cochineal over alum and tartar on
> wool, and clearer reds over just alum on wool.  But on silk all I ever get
> is old-rose:  very disappointing.  Sometimes I think I'm just destined to
> be a wool dyer, not a silk dyer. ;>
>
> Sure would like to get ahold of some real kermes, though!
>
>
> Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
>   http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html
>
>
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