11-09-2006, 10:08 PM
Well if there's a natural dye that was used in antiquity that turned wool gray, then sure- but I'm unaware of one myself. Black isn't an easy shade to dye things actually- even now. I've tried to do it with commercially-available dyes (Rit, for example), and things have never gone really black...
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