Written for the Scientific American By Dr. M.Reimann, of Berlin Supposing it is required to dye 100 lbs. of raw silk, 12 lbs. of soap are boiled with a sufficient quantity of river or rain water ...

3) The night before dyeing the fabric, remove the seeds from the pomegranates ... fibres is slightly different to mordanting wool or silk. Recipe for mordanting cotton and linen (cellulose ...

India's textile art traditions stand as a testament to its rich cultural heritage and mind-boggling diversity. Passed down ...

He found a stylish solution in India, where textile makers employed a millennium-old tie-dyeing technique called bandhani to create colorful silk and ... and applied to fabric through a process ...