Cloth bleaching

The bleaching was done in the following way: first, hot water and ash were spilt over the cloth, which was then taken to a stream or river and thrown into the water and spread out so that the water rinsed it, Then, it was picked up and spread out on the grass of clean ground or left to dry on the fence or a rod, without draining. The immersion and drying was repeated three to five days in a row , and then, once again, hot water and ash were spilt over the cloth. Over the next seven to eight days it was immersed and dried in the sun again and again. In some places, the cloth was placed in a simple hollow cylinder called stublina, which was entrenched in the ground and filled with a layer of ash and a layer of oat straw. The cloth was placed on the straw and covered with another layer of straw and another layer of ash and finally, hot water was split over all this. This was done in order to keep the cloth wet and warm, which, at first made the cloth yellow and, later, helped the whitening
process.
Dyeing wool
The black colour known as vranilo or mrčilo was made by cooking ashtree leaves with blacksmith cinder. If they needed the yarn for embroidery, people used to wool of black sheep.
The red colour was made of the plant called madder (broć). The root of the plant was dug up in spring and dried during the summer. People sometimes bought madder, ground it in the mortar, and then sifted the powder and diluted it in water. Previously they immersed yarn in alum and left it in it for a week. When they took it out, they immersed it in madder, in a clay container. If the colour was not intensive enough the yarn was dried and immersed in madder once again.
The blue colour was made of indigo which could be bought in towns. It was done in the following way: indigo was diluted in the so-called šjera (the water used for the very first washing of wool, which was foamy and contained some acids). After that, yarn was immersed in this solution.
The yellow colour was made of the plant called balučka (colchicum auctumnaia) or hazel leaves. Only young plants of balučka were used. The colour was also made by cooking wild apples.
The green colour was made by mixing the yellow and blue colour. The yarn was first dyed yellow and, after that, immersed in indigo.
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