Comments on: Dye Days http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/01/dye-days/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Sandy http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/01/dye-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1897 Sandy Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:44:03 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/01/dye-days/#comment-1897 Well, Queen Anne's Lace is toxic (if eaten), and you're still here to write about it, so obviously THAT lasting effect didn't happen. Some of the things used as mordants - ammonia for example - can produce horrible fumes, which can cause anything from runny-nose-&-weeping to real breathing problems, and of course there are things that you DON'T want the residue of, left in your cooking pots! Not to mention some mordants/dyestuffs will react with certain pot-materials (ammonia + aluminum under certain circumstances causes release of, if I recall correctly which I probably don't, hydrogen gas . . . ). I wouldn't dye anything in my current kitchen because there's no exhaust fan (even frying onions can get interesting). Well, Queen Anne’s Lace is toxic (if eaten), and you’re still here to write about it, so obviously THAT lasting effect didn’t happen.

Some of the things used as mordants – ammonia for example – can produce horrible fumes, which can cause anything from runny-nose-&-weeping to real breathing problems, and of course there are things that you DON’T want the residue of, left in your cooking pots! Not to mention some mordants/dyestuffs will react with certain pot-materials (ammonia + aluminum under certain circumstances causes release of, if I recall correctly which I probably don’t, hydrogen gas . . . ).

I wouldn’t dye anything in my current kitchen because there’s no exhaust fan (even frying onions can get interesting).

]]> By: norma http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/01/dye-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1895 norma Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:32:27 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/01/dye-days/#comment-1895 haha...that reminds me of my dyeing experiences when i was young...my mother decided to try her hand at dyeing yarns, so we went out, picked goldenrod, queen anne's lace and i don't remember what else...and we boiled these things up, and dyed yarn for several months...until my mother heard that you weren't supposed to do that in your cooking pots nor were you supposed to do it in your kitchen...i don't know if there are any lasting effects??... haha…that reminds me of my dyeing experiences when i was young…my mother decided to try her hand at dyeing yarns, so we went out, picked goldenrod, queen anne’s lace and i don’t remember what else…and we boiled these things up, and dyed yarn for several months…until my mother heard that you weren’t supposed to do that in your cooking pots nor were you supposed to do it in your kitchen…i don’t know if there are any lasting effects??…

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