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    The Dyer’s Hand

    Sep 01, 2019 4 minutes
    by Tracy Vonder Brink

    Long ago, weavers learned to make cloth from cotton, flax, and wool. And soon dyers started experimenting with ways to color it. Most early dyes came from plants, shells, and rocks. Some of these dyes are still used today.

    Early dyers did a lot of experimenting. They learned to dry, crush, and cook plants to make colored powders and pastes. They mixed in other ingredients to bring out the color. Then they added the color to boiling water. The cloth went in. After hours of boiling, the cloth turned the color of the dye.

    To make colors last, dyers learned to use salt, pee, or ashes to help dye stick to cloth. These dye-helpers

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