1/2 lb wool mordanted with 1/2 oz alum
Bring nettles to boil for 1 hour, leave to cool over night, strain. Add mordanted wool to dye bath, bring slowly to almost boil (took 3 hours), turned off, left to cool in dye bath.
Washed dyed wool.
Very mild yellow-green. Kind of feeling it wasn't worth the effort
3 comments:
It's too bad the colour came out so light, especially after so much work... Oh well, it was worth a try!
There is a saying in Sweden: "lot of scream and not so much of wool, said the farmer sharing the pig".
I'm sorry to hear that all the efforts was in vain.
Although, here is a list of species used for dying and according to that (brännässla is the Swedish word for stinging nettle) one should use the root together with alum.
"Shear" of course!
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