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  2. Natural dye - Wikipedia

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    Natural dye. Naturally dyed skeins made with madder root, Colonial Williamsburg, VA. Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources— roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood —and other biological sources such as fungi. [ 1 ]

  3. Indigo dye - Wikipedia

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    Indigo is a natural dye extracted from the leaves of some plants of the Indigofera genus, in particular Indigofera tinctoria. Dye-bearing Indigofera plants were commonly grown and used throughout the world, particularly in Asia, with the production of indigo dyestuff economically important due to the historical rarity of other blue dyestuffs. [1]

  4. Dye - Wikipedia

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    Most natural dyes are mordant dyes and there is therefore a large literature base describing dyeing techniques. The most important mordant dyes are the synthetic mordant dyes, or chrome dyes, used for wool; these comprise some 30% of dyes used for wool, and are especially useful for black and navy shades.

  5. Dyeing - Wikipedia

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    Silk dye in pan on stove. Khotan. Dyeing is the application of dyes or pigments on textile materials such as fibers, yarns, and fabrics with the goal of achieving color with desired color fastness. Dyeing is normally done in a special solution containing dyes and particular chemical material. Dye molecules are fixed to the fiber by absorption ...

  6. Substantive dye - Wikipedia

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    Substantive dyes work best on textiles with high contents of cellulose, such as cotton. In contrast to direct dyes, wool and leather goods are dyed by the process of ion exchange, exploiting the cationic nature of proteins near neutral pH. The development of substantive dyes helped make mordant dyes obsolete. [2]

  7. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    He attempted to regulate the cleaning and dyeing process of artisans who did business with him, and shipped wool intended for higher grade weaving outside the region for factory cleaning. He limited the range of dyes in textiles he traded and refused to deal fabric that had included certain commercially produced yarns.

  8. List of dyes - Wikipedia

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    65589-70-0. 10597-46-3 (hydrochloride) Alcian Blue 8GX. Alcian Blue. Ingrain Blue 1. 74240. phthalocyanine. 75881-23-1. Alcian yellow GXS.

  9. D.Y. Begay - Wikipedia

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    Begay is a fourth generation weaver [3] who grew up surrounded by women weavers. [4] From them she learned sheep herding and shearing, and how to work with wool. She learned to spin and card wool, and traditional Navajo weaving techniques. [4] Her mother taught her to identify plants to make dyes and to understand the dyeing process. [5]

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