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since i'm starting to learn about natural dyeing, i'm extra-glad that my still is copper. copper, in various forms, is used as both a mordant (color-fixer) and dye for wool, silk, etc. - and, it is a metal, so it occasionally reacts with the chemical constituents of various herbs i put in it. so....when
sometimes, when i distill things, i open the still (the next day, after it's cooled), and find the herbs on top a bright, bright green color. like, technicolor green. it's happened to me with lemon balm, various mints, and today, lemon eucalyptus. so....today i happened to have a few pre-mordanted silk...
https://prairielandherbs.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
since i'm starting to learn about natural dyeing, i'm extra-glad that my still is copper. copper, in various forms, is used as both a mordant (color-fixer) and dye for wool, silk, etc. - and, it is a metal, so it occasionally reacts with the chemical constituents of various herbs i put in it. so....when
sometimes, when i distill things, i open the still (the next day, after it's cooled), and find the herbs on top a bright, bright green color. like, technicolor green. it's happened to me with lemon balm, various mints, and today, lemon eucalyptus. so....today i happened to have a few pre-mordanted silk...
http://prairielandherbs.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html