Black Beans or Black Turtle Beans ~ known generally to the cooking world, this bean makes a wonderful food dye. Not necessarily very colourfast, it matures into a beautiful ceramic colour - silver grey with a touch of blue. Because you are only using the soaking water, you can use the beans for cooking afterwards, making it a very 'no waste' food dye.
NOTE: Ph sensitive, not wash and light fast
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Basic Recipe:
100% Dried Black Beans
100g Cream of Tartar
Fibre/Fabric
After you have soaked the beans in cold water overnight - remember we want the soaking liquid so don't drain it away!
Fill a big pot with fresh water
Stir the beans to extract as much colour as possible.
Take a sieve and drain the liquid into the pot.
Put the beans back into the pot and fill with water again, stir than drain into pot.
add 100g of Cream of tartar to the dyebath.
add the table cloth bring to 80 degrees for 1 hour.
Leave overnight or 12 hours.
Rinse and dry.
