Rainbow

Homemade Dyes

 

Purple:

½ cup strawberries

½ cup raspberries

1 tablespoon aluminum sodium sulfate

2 cups water

Results: hot pink in pot, deep purple on fabric

 

Blue and Purple:

½ cup blueberries

3 tablespoons aluminum sodium sulfate

2 cups water

(boil)

Results: purple on thin silk, blue on heavy silk

 

Orange:

½ cup strawberries

½ tablespoon aluminum sodium sulfate

2 cups water

Results: dye boiled to a red color but dyed the silk orange

 

Brown:

½ cup hazelnut ground coffee

½ tablespoon aluminum sodium sulfate

2 cups water

Results: brownish khaki slightly green color

 

 

Black:

2 tablespoons extract from logwood

¼ tablespoon aluminum sodium sulfate

2 cups water

Results: black on fabric, fades to a dark tone of green