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This extremely bright purple dye was discovered by accident in the 19th century by a chemist trying to synthesize quinine as a malaria cure.
Mauveine
What do you call a substance that fixes dye permanently in fabric?
Mordant
Which of the following fabric dyes is not derived from an animal?
A. Kermes
B. Cochineal
C. Indigo
D. Murex
C. Indigo
If I want to dye something a nice blue color, I could use what?
Woad
A red, yellow, or brown pigment derived from mud, metal, rock, or earth would be a type of:
Ochre
One of the earliest pigments used by prehistoric humans was carbon black. How was it obtained?
by burning wood
Murex was prized by the Romans (among other civilizations) for its rich color - and only rich people were allowed to use it. What color does it produce?
Purple
How old are the earliest surviving examples of dyed fabric?
5,000 to 6,000 years old
How is a dye different from paint?
A dye actually chemically bonds with what is being dyed, paints do not.
Natural dye may be made from plants, animals, and minerals. Which dye is derived from an animal?
A. Madder
B. Cutch
C. Indigo
D. Cochineal
D. Cochineal
Before dyeing your wool, you’ll need to soak it in a chemical that will improve the colorfastness and quality of the dye. What are such chemicals called?
Mordants
Which of the following is not commonly used to improve the colorfastness and quality of dye?
A. Alum
B. Copper
C. Silver
D. Iron
C. Silver
Which of the following has not been a source of red dye?
A. Cochineal
B. Eucalyptus
C. Madder
D. Cutch
D. Cutch
A traditional blue dye for both cloth and people in the British Iles, this dye was produced from a plant, in ages past, by fermenting its leaves with urine.
Woad
Tyrian purple was one of the most-valued color in antiquity, because purple dyes were so rare. From what was it obtained?
Shellfish
Which pure color is most difficult to obtain through just one natural dye?
Green
The earliest pigment use we know of is from the ——————.
Lower Paleolithic Age (350,000 years ago)
Some evidence shows that textile dyeing dates back as early as the —————– or New Stone Age, which took place around 10,200 BCE.
Neolithic Period
Dyed flax fibers have been found in prehistoric caves in the —————- from before 36,000 BP.
Republic of Georgia
In ———- and ——–, dyeing has been happening for over 5,000 years.
India , Palestine
Some data state that dyeing was done more than —— years ago because of the evidence of dyed fabrics found in Egyptian tombs.
4,000
During ———– to ———- BCE, the period when fixed settlements and textiles were being developed, dyes were also used.
7200 , 2000
In ————-, dye guilds developed their dye stuffs and methods under strict secrecy. People were very competitive and some were even killed for their knowledge.
Medieval times
The first synthetic dye was ——— and was discovered by ———– in ———.
mauve, William Henry Perkin, 1856
Define dyes.
-colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied.
-this distinguishes dyes from pigments that do not chemically bind to the material they color.
-the dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution, and may require a mordant to improve fastness of the dye on the fiber.
-not all colored organic substances are dyes.
-only organic molecules of considerable complexity are useful as dyes.
Cochineal dyes are derived from the dry bodies of the insect ——————–, which lives on the Cactus Rhynchota
Dactylopius Coccus
Scientific name of Cutch
Acacia Catechu
— is a dye made from the heart wood of the acacia tree and used in India long before the birth of Christ.
Cutch
——– is a large genus with over ——- species that thrive in many of the warmer regions of the world.
Acacia, 500
Has been used as a brown dye in India for over 2000 years.
Bombay Catechu