[Dyeing Yellow: Saffron]
Name: Yuan Yi, Cindy Kok
Date and Time:
2015.November.16, 12:57 PM
Location: Chandler 260
Subject: Making Lye for Dyeing with Saffron
We consulted a modern recipe for making lye from this site:
http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/make-lye.html#.VkK30rerSUk
- measure 2 beakers of 500 ml of water
- measure 60g washing soda x2
- measure 60 g quicklime x2
- placed each beaker on a burner around 1:10pm
- begins boiling around 1:15pm
- 1:18 adjust boiler on right to 2 to see difference in boiling
- 1:20 adjust boiler on right to 3, boiler on left to 2
- 1:24 roiling boil on right side, turn down to 2
- Continued to adjust boilers to keep them gently boil
- smells faintly like baking bread? burnt toast?
- turned off at 1:35 pm
Name:Yuan Yi, Cindy Kok
Date and Time:
[[#x-[Saffron]-2015.November.16, 3:27pm]]2015.November.16, 3:27pm
Location: Chandler 260
Subject: Processing Saffron
- Placed a steel plate on the burner set to 1
- Placed cotton cloth on the plate and then 1g saffron on the cloth
- warmed for 15 min.
- put heated saffron in 170 ml of lye (modern manual says .1g for 500 ml but can be varied for color concentration)
- unspecified soaking time in lye, left saffron soaking overnight
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[Dyeing Yellow: Weld]
Name: Yuan Yi
Date and Time:
2015.Nov 20
Location: Greenbelt, MD
Subject: Related Recipes
I just found a recipe from Flanders and the Netherlands from Jo Kirby's book:
Idem for four pounds of wool yarn or cloth you shall take two pounds of weld. This weld is put in a kettle and clean water is added. To that is also added half a tin dish of ashed from the fire. And then, as soon as it boils, take your wool yarn and put it in. Thus let it boil for [the time of reciting] eight or nine Pater nosters. Then take our your yarn and put some water in your kettle and add also some ask from the fireplace. Then again put in your wool and let it boil for a good while (from Anon,
Tbouck van wondre, 1513: 63, translated)
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