Originally Posted by
Teddybear Lady
What is a "mordant"? A preservative or something? I bet you have some pretty "earthy" colors from doing your own fabric dying.
yes, the mordant is what sets the color of the plant matter into the fibers of the cotton/wool, etc.
I tend to go for the stranger colors, always looking for purple, orange, pink, and green...though most plants come out brown, gold, yellow..hehehe