Lost Arts 3 - Natural Dyeing

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1. How is a dye different from a paint? A dye is liquid, paints are much thicker A dye actually chemically bonds with what is being dyed, paints do not Dyes are brighter than paints Dyes are a pure substance, paints contain many ingredients

2. Natural dyes may be made from plants, animals and minerals. Which of the following dyes is derived from an animal? Madder Cochineal Indigo Cutch

3. Which of the following is *not* commonly used to produce natural dyes? Mushrooms Molds Lichens Ferns

4. Before dyeing your wool, you'll need to soak it in a chemical that will improve the colorfastness and quality of the dye. What are such chemicals called? Absorbents Fixatives Mordants Colorants

5. Which of the following is *not* commonly used to improve the colorfastness and quality of the dye? Alum Copper Silver Iron

6. Which of the following has not been a source of red dye? Cutch Madder Cochineal Eucalyptus

7. A traditional blue dye for both cloth and people in the British Isles, this dye was produced from a plant, in ages past, by fermenting its leaves with urine. Logwood Indigo Woad Alkanet

8. Tyrian purple was one of the most-valued colors in antiquity, because purple dyes were so rare. From what was it obtained? Beet roots Insects Shellfish Iris flowers

9. Which of the following pure colors is most difficult to obtain through the use of just one natural dye? Red Blue Yellow Green

10. What country derived its name from a natural dye plant? Brazil Guatemala Belize Paraguay