ANRA:Lecture:Plants in Tailoring

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Here at ANRA, we like to study all the different ways that we can use natural resources. Many plants are useful for herbal recipes - making cures and potions. But they can also be used to make dyes that we can use in our tailoring.

The colours we can make are Black, Blue, Green, Red and Yellow and also, using a slightly different process, we can make Cotton Bleach. We use fruit, flowers, berries and roots - flowers should be in full bloom: berries and fruit at their ripest. The plant material should be chopped into small pieces and placed in a pot. Add water - twice as much as you have of the plant material and bring the pot to the boil and keep it simmering for a while. When cool, you strain off the liquid and bottle it to stop the air from spoiling it.

Dyes will simply wash out of cloth over time unless you fix the dye. The fixative is also called a Mordant and I will teach you what to use for this purpose. You must be careful when handling dyes because your hands might become stained. Get a large vat, fill it and soak the cloth - the longer you leave it, the deeper will be the dye.

Lecture given by Kish'ti in Autumn 2218 at ANRA, Blandenberg

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