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Mordant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A mordant is a substance used to set dyes on fabrics or tissue sections by forming a coordination complex with the dye which then attaches to the fabric or tissue. It may be used for dyeing fabrics,...
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Probably the chemical mordant most often used by home dyers is alum, partly because it is effective and readily available and partly because it is much less toxic than other metal mordants. Alum, as its name suggests, is an aluminum compound, packaged as a white powder. ... Filed under: History...
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I also mention with a certain amount of hesitation because they are so poisonous the mordants used in many 16th & 17th century recipes but the use of which John Edmond (The History and Practice of 18th Century Dyeing) said was dying out by the 18th century.
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Mordanting:I have written 7 pages so far on the history of mordanting, the use of mordants worldwide and on alum .What do I do? Extract some of it for the blog or publish the whole lot.What do you think? How much do you want to read about mordanting?
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The chemical compounds used as mordants are either acidic or basic. Acid mordants (e.g., tannic acid) are employed with basic dyes; basic mordants (e.g., alum, chrome alum, and certain salts of aluminum, chromium, copper, iron, potassium, and tin) are employed with acid dyes. ... History of mordants...
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Viking Age Dyestuffs - History; Business: Viking, Resources History ; Introduction to the colors Age Dyestuffs History dyestuffs, and mordants used by Viking spinners and cloth weavers. Author: Carolyn Priest-Dorman.
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Mordants enabled a wide range of colors, especially when used with madder, and different cultures had developed not altogether different technologies. ... This paper was written while he was the 1991-1992 Edelstein International Fellow in the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the Sidney M.
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