In a message dated 1/15/2010 6:17:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, pi...@hundred-acre-wood.com writes:
Kermes is a related insect to the cochineal bug--it gives that lovely deep pure red. Fustic is the heartwood of one of the trees in the Mulberry family, and it produces yellows and oranges. You could, in theory, use kermes with fustic but I think unless you had a very large concentration of fustic in relation to the concentration of kermes you'd get orange rather than "yolk yellow". Yes, kermes is native to the Old World and so was used for that deep blue red before cochineal was discovered. It was often used for the reds in carpets, so think of that color. One seldom, if ever, actually combined dyes in a bath, but rather dyed first with one, then the other. I'm not sure if over-dyeing fustic with even a weak concentration of kermes would give "yolk yellow." I agree that orange would be much more likely. Ann Wass _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
