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Re: Other Natural Dyes
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Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on August 09, 1999 at 12:37:42:
In Reply to: Re: Other Natural Dyes posted by Bart on August 09, 1999 at 08:14:21:
: Whan you say that you got nothing useful from it, do you mean it : didnt stain? Also what is tannin, I heard it mentioned before? Tannins are a group of naturally occurring dyes that tend to bind with keratins and collagens easily. Hennotannic acid binds with skin, hair and fingernails better than anything else. Gallotannins are second best (clove, oak gall) There are several others. Cutch, as is available from dye suppliers is a brown glassy stuff, that dissolves easily in water. I mixed a regular batch of henna, mixed same 1/2 and 1/2 with cutch and one batch of cutch....and the henna showed no improvement with cutch (no worse either) and the cutch by itself didn't show up. In fiber arts, most of the vegetable dyes either need a mordant or long boiing to get the dye to bind with the fiber.
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