Navajo and Hopi Dyes

1/4 cup raw Add wet yarn alum 1 pound basketry material bath blossoms boil 10 minutes Boil 2 hours Boil gently boil slowly Bring to boil cactus fruit CANAIGRE Chrysothamnus cup raw alum cups 1½ litres deep purple double handful 100 double handful 30-40 dyebath overnight dyed fibers gallons of water GREENTHREAD ground native alum handful 100 ml Hopi Immerse in dye Indigo dye juniper juniper ashes KIDNEY BEAN koko'ma Zea let boil Lux soap Maerz and Paul mahogany root bark Material added Mesa Mordanting mountain mahogany root Navajo tea Pectis pound yarn Boil PURPLE CORN RABBIT BRUSH Recipe Result Rhus trilobata Rinse Rumex hymenosepalus Second Mesa slightly and dry slowly and boil small double handful smoked soap Stock Dye Strain sumac berry Thelesperma Treatment in dye washed in yucca Washing test wool and cotton wool or cotton wool washed wring slightly yarn and stir yucca suds Zea mays amylacea