Anita Hart wrote:
It would be lovely if I could gather something wild around here in Northern NH USA, but don't really think there's anything available that will give me a brown.
Pick any weed at random -- the odds are that it will dye wool brown. I wouldn't test anything there isn't plenty of, though, as most weeds dye less wool than their own weight. Rhubarb leaves dye a golden brown, and are in themselves a mordant. I got a very dark brown by overdying rhubarb with onionskin. I put wool and dye into cold water, heat it to the boil very slowly, then allow it to cool in the bath. All of the striped socks I made from my sample skeins are as brilliant as they were when new, even though all have been darned at least once, and some have had new toes knitted. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
