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Natural dye for leather......help
#1
I jus recently purchased some madder and woad to dye some veg tanned leather I have. Do I need to boil the lather to have the dye stick? Do I need a mordant?

Thanks.
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Paolo
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#2
I share your interest in that question. I know some people have been able to get a really nice red dye with cochenille on leather, but there seems to be few experimentation with madder.

A few links:
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63556

http://www.romanarmytalk.com/20-roman-re...r-red.html

http://www.ekoloji.com.tr/resimler/80-11.pdf

http://laundry.about.com/od/NaturalFabri...yes_11.htm

What I'm wondering is the possibility to get a madder dye that can be brushed over leather.
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#3
Here's what little experience I have so far on dyeing leather:

a) I used alum tanned leather when dying with madder, so had leather that already had the mordant in through the tanning process. For the dying itself, the rule AFAIK is that the lower the temperature, the longer it takes to reach the same color saturation. I dyed my leather at room temperature. See http://sutor.jimdo.com/shoes/roman-shoes...a-calceus/ and http://sutor.jimdo.com/bags/roman/drawst...om-israel/ for the results.
The color is not lightfast though (I think this is pretty much universal for veg. dyeing)!

b) birch leaves on alumn tanned deerskin. No preparational treatment, 24h at room temperature. Achieved a nice greenish yellow: http://s41.photobucket.com/user/ummos150...0.jpg.html
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