As part of an event I ran called Féile na nÚll this year there was a workshop, a great madder experiment if you will, where people who wanted to participate brought tap water from different areas. We messed about a bit with the PH of an additional sample of tap water and threw in aContinue reading “The Great Madder Experiment”
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Brazilwood
If anyone ever tells you Pink is not a period colour – they lie. Pink is produced in a number of ways, not least of which is just allowing a red dyebath to exhaust into steadily more pale pink tones. This is ordinary wool, linen and muslin cloth all dyed with brazilwood. I used tapContinue reading “Brazilwood”