I took a natural dying class some time ago and have had some fun with copper dying.
If you soak copper (tubes, dish scrubbers, etc) in a solution of ammonia and water,
you get some beautiful greens depending on how long you soak the copper tubing.
The actual dying had to be done outside (for obvious reasons)
and the wool had to be rinsed well to remove ( Read more... )

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I soaked 2 copper tubes (from Lowe's) and 2 copper pot scrubbers
in a 50/50 ammonia/water solution for weeks.
I then put the wool in for about 6 minutes at a time.
This wool was dyed about 3 weeks ago.
Here you can see the wool roving before and after.
The dyed roving is the exact color of my new sofa!
After finishing the water in the jar was a very ( Read more... )