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I. Vanden Berghe, Margarita Gleba, Ulla Mannering, "Towards the identification of dyestuffs in Early Iron Age Scandinavian peat bog textiles," Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 36, Issue 9, September 2009, Pages 1910-1921, ISSN 0305-4403, DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.04.019.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WH8-4W7B0KS-1/2/1662b9fb78d34f6a56503a71c816299d)
Keywords: Natural organic dyes; Dye extraction; High performance liquid chromatography; Archaeological textiles; Scandinavia; Early Iron Age

Dharma Trading has a short feature in its newsletter on cochineal (red dye producing insect, which replaces/d the carmine made from the related kermes insect in Europe:
http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/5763385-AA.shtml

(P.S. apparently Dharma is now selling organic cotton Tshirts, in sizes to 3x; I've had good luck with their large sizes.)

Recipe from The Secretes of Alexis of Piemont... Fol. 76

To make heare [hair] as yelow as golde
Take the vyne or the scrappynges of Rubarbe, & stepe it in white wyne, or in cleare lye; and after youhave washed your head with it, you shall weate [wet] your heares [hairs] with a sponge or some other cloth, and lette them drye by the fyre, or in the Sunne; after this weate [we] them and drye them agayne: for the oftener you dooe it, the fairer they wyll bee, without hurting your head anye thyng at all.

It's unclear whether 'clear lye' is an actual lye, and what strength it might be at. More tomorrow about the lyes; there's one set of Italian instructions that suggests making a lye for women to wash their bodies and privy parts! by boiling ash in water and then straining it; how strong a lye that might be, I don't know.

Dharma Trading Co. ( http://www.dharmatrading.com/ ) now stocks a variety of natural dyestuffs, including Alkanet, Madder, Cochineal, etc. and Mordants. ~~I'll be emailing them to find out if these are mixed dyes, which I think they are.~~ http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/1893-AA.shtml
These are the real botanical/insectoid ingredients, per email from Dharma:

The Natural dyes are just the plain dyestuffs. Some of them are already ground for you, but things like the madder are still just the roots or bark that you have to chop up or pulverize yourself.

They've also added temporary tatoo-type body paint, and the following fabrics that bemuse me to their line:
55% Hemp/45% Organic Cotton Muslin 58"
60% Hemp/40% Silk Charmuese 57"
60% Hemp/40% Silk Textured Crepe 49"
58% Soy/37% Organic Cotton Jersey/5% Spandex 60"
100% Bamboo Fleece 60"
100% Bamboo Dobby 57" - coming soon!
Cotton Bamboo Poplin 52" - coming soon!
(They've carried various weights of Hemp cloth for years. I'm not sure I want to know what the Bamboo Dobby is-- it sounds like some S&M tool for HouseElves.)

Dharma Trading co is one of my addictions, though I don't generally dye things, because they have these great undyed cotton shifts, in which a 2XL is *my* size. :) http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/3303-AA.shtml?lnav=clothing_women.html
They also have banner blanks, flour sack towels, aprons... as well as dyes, resists and all that.
Great stuff.

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