Either ol the last may be used for red dyes ; but the crop gives the most beautiful color. Madder roots are imported from Smyrna tc England, called Palestine madder, which are ground in London.

This process, until very recently, has been necessary for all madder dyes. Third, where the mordants and coloring matters are previously combined together to form the color to be impressed ...

The root of the madder plant produced a red colour ... Stale urine may have been used as a mordant to fix dyes. Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC, described the Celts wearing ...

But most of these colors have been lost to time. Fascinated with these forgotten pigments, some Kyotoites are endeavoring to revive them and create new dyeing techniques. Discover how people have ...

Colours are based on natural wool and dye colours, usually 'Shetland black' (natural dark brown), natural white, indigo blue, madder red, and plant-dye yellow. The highly-patterned knitwear became ...