If you've never seen the yolk of a range-fed chicken, you wouldn't know that it leans heavily towards orange. Store-bought egg yolks are a much different color - yellow.
Cactus ----- Original Message ---- From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pi...@hundred-acre-wood.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 4:16:22 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Dye Color Hmmm. 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". Jen/pixel/Margaret On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Jane Pease wrote: > I have a question for the dyers on the list. > > Some listmates on a list discussing works of our favorite author came noted > this sentence: > > "He had a beard which was the yolk yellow of floss dyed with kermes and > fustic" > > Anyone have a idea of what color(s) she may have in mind? > > Jane, feeling wan and not colorful in No VA _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
