Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
Originally Posted by cjr
How much vinegar? how much salt?
Vinegar or salt will not set modern chemical dyes. They are mordants for organic dyes.
Lots and lots of people will claim a fabric stopped "bleeding" after they washed it with vinegar or salt. It would have stopped "bleeding" anyway since it was just excess dye that washed out.
So what do you use, to set batiks? Do they use modern dyes?