The color green can be achieved by the home dyers in a number of ways. Safe food grade color can be achieved by dyeing wool, silk, or other protein fibers with Koolaide, Flavoraide, or other paste food dyes like frosting colors. Or you can dye less safely with chemical dyes available from anything like RIT from the grocery store to fine grade chemical dyes purchased from professional dye suppliers. I listed some of those suppliers at the end of this article as well as an article on Koolaide dyeing.
However, for most of human history the color green and the color purple were achieved not by a single dye but by dyeing over another color. Green is made by mixing the two primary colors yellow and blue. In most dye traditions the lighter color is dyed first, followed by the darker.
To make a nice dark green for one of my tapestries I dyed yarn first with tumeric and then over dyed with indigo for blue. I got the wonderful green you see in the first picture after the title. You can see the colors used below.
So experiment click on the following links for directions first dyeing with tumeric and then over dyeing with indigo or another deep blue color.
Have a good Spring!
List of dyeing links:
RIT dye: http://www.rit.com
ProChem Dye Company: http://www.prochemical.com
Dharma Trading Company: http://www.dharmatrading.com
G and S Dye Company of Canada: http://www.gsdye.com
KOOL AIDE AND JELLO DYE: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/fibe...
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