COFFEE
Materials:
½ cup hazelnut ground coffee
½ tablespoon aluminum sodium sulfate
2 cups water
Silk
Procedure: First I heated the water in a put on a hot plate so that it was really hot yet not yet boiling. Then I added the ground coffee and mordant and let it heat up for five minutes before adding the silk. Then I placed my silk square sample in the dye bah and let it soak for about ten minutes. Then I removed the silk and rinsed it off with cool water.
Analysis: The dye bath looked like a dark brown like the hazelnut ground coffee, but it dyed the silk a light brown color that almost looks green. Maybe if the silk was left in longer it would have been a darker brown, but for the five minutes it was in the dye bath, it turned a nice medium shade of brown.
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