MORDANT MONDAY: Dissolving Aluminum Acetate + Re-Mordanting
We get mordant questions all the time at Botanical Colors so why not create Mordant Monday??? Got mordanting questions? Email [email protected] YOU ASKED: My aluminum acetate often does not completely dissolve even with boiling water. Do you recommend putting the undissolved mordant in the vat with the fabric/textiles or would you strain? My assumption is that by excluding the undissolved mordant, one is reducing the amount used for the WOF. KATHY ANSWERED: Aluminum acetate is tricky to dissolve, but it should eventually dissolve. Sometimes I leave it overnight and it dissolves completely. I do not recommend putting lumps of undissolved … Read more