That's been my experience here in Northern NH, USA also - yellow and gold are easy to get, but I've never got what I would call a brown. A nice green with an evergreen fern and rusty color from black cherry chips, but yellow and gold mostly. Anita ----- Original Message ----- From: "MLuskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:12 PM Subject: Re: natural dye for brown?
> Joy wrote: "...Pick any weed at random -- the odds > are that it will dye wool brown... > I have found that most dye plant experiments dye > yellows and golds. I wonder if it's a regional thing. > I have used walnut leaves lots of times. I don't like > dealing with mordants, and so this is nice and easy. > And it doesn't seem to affect the texture of the wool, > like other dyes often do for me. > Merry Luskin, Oakland CA > Reference librarian and handspinner > Great site: Librarians' Index to the Internet To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
