Osage Orange

Osage Orange Natural Dye
Maclura pomifera
Osage Orange comes from a tree native to Arkansas and Texas. Its wood makes a clear lemon yellow dye.

Time Required:
12 hours

• Use clean, premordanted wool or yarn.
  
• Measure the Osage Orange chips or sawdust (25% – 100% WOG) into a nylon stocking and into small dish.
  
• Add water and allow to sit overnight.
  
• Pour the stocking and the water into dyepot filled with hot water and simmer for 1 hour.
  
• Add premordanted fibre or yarn into the dyepot and simmer for 1 hour.
  
• Allow the dyepot to cool.
  
• Remove the fibre or yarn from the dyepot, rinse and let dry.

Tips:

• Try alum or tin premordants.
  
• Try overdyeing the osage orange with other colours such as indigo or logwood. 

Osage Orange Dye

Osage Orange