After many attempts, we could not get a dye with the beets. We were able to obtain a stain but once the wool was rinsed, it turned yellow. Okay let me reword that. We could not get at red dye from the beets. We used iron as our mortant. If you would like, try different mortant with the beets. You will achieve various shades of yellows and greens. The beet consentrate we used was Dr. Schoenenberger Red Beet Crystals. The manufacturer makes health claims that I neither agree nor deny but for our purpose of dying red, it was a bust. We also used fresh beets with the same results. So save yourself some bucks if you want to try this experiment and use fresh beets.
Madder is traditionally used to make red. As you know from our previous episodes, my madder is too young to use right now. I will have to search for a "sacrifical" plant, in order to conduct the experiment.
I am trying to get a good picture of the felt so you can see how soft the alpaca felts. Just in case there are some listeners who have never seen an alpaca, this is what they look like.
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