Timeline for Could my character dye her hair with clothing dye or other common materials?
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| Jul 25, 2021 at 22:54 | comment | added | TCooper | @DavidR I was thinking more of woad/indigo dye followed by kermes dye - still a lot of manual production but (I think, no expert) more feasible for a single person to handle/create/perfect a the process. Would still probably need suppliers though - or a special (read fictional) method for catching the bugs in enough quantity. I thought that method was more common in medieval Europe anyway, with the shells being a Roman Empire method they lost in the dark ages? (Again, no expert, open to correction) | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 21:29 | comment | added | David R | @TCooper Technically yes, the maker of the purple dye could use it. However, the process took thousands of shellfish and a lot of labor to make. Thus, only the very rich could afford to have anyone do that much labor. The people making the dye could sell it for so much that it made sense to sell it and use the money to buy food instead of trying to use it themselves. | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 21:13 | comment | added | Otkin | If you apply henna on bleached hair you will get very bright hues ranging from yellow (similar to banana) to orange. Other dyes will also produce much brighter colours than you are expecting if the hair is prepared by bleaching. Blue and green are not out of the realm of possibilities. Red, orange, yellow are very much possible and rather easy to achieve. | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | TCooper | I'd challenge the complete inability to get a dye without being rich. Someone has to be the creator and seller of the dye - if MC can create their own, there is no need to purchase (although if they can create their own, they could become rich anyway, by making additional and selling it) | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 14:42 | comment | added | Alexander Nied | Ah, got it! That makes sense-- I had read that lye for soap could be made with hardwood ash, so it is probably the same or a similar process for cleaning of clothes. Thanks! | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 14:40 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | @AlexanderNied a poor typo for ashes | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 14:40 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2021 at 14:01 | comment | added | Alexander Nied | Interesting! What are tree "hashes"? | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 3:20 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |