How To Dye With Avocado Skins

How To Dye With Avocado Skins

I dyed silk and cotton fabric with avocado skins. It’s a nice peach dye which doesn’t need a mordant. I dried the skins and chopped seeds of two avocados. The chopped avocado seeds become more red after contact with the air. Then I boiled the avocado skins, seeds and water for about one hour. The dye solution becomes reddish brown while boiling.

 

Then without removing the avocado pits and skins, I boiled the dye with the fabric again for about one hour. Some of the fabric I removed after that from the dye bath, while some of the fabric I left soaking till the next morning.

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