Making a dye from osage

[sleek]

I have no idea what I am doing but boiling my bow tips for recurves in the same water, never changing it out is making some very dark osage soup water. It has dyed or stained my pine 2x4 recurve jig a very dark red. I like it. I am saving all my shavings and choppings, when I am done, I am going to put them all in that pot of osage stew, boil it all down as much as I can. I have lots of dust from the sander as well that I will do the same with. Afterwards it getting boiled down to condense it. Anybody else ever make an osage dye?

[leonwood]

I beleive Simson does use his "osage soup" along with his fuming to stain other woods

[Hamish]

I haven't used it but it osage was commonly used to manufacture dye for clothing, wool. Your best bet is to market it sawdust and shavings to DIY craft wool dyers.

[GlisGlis]

google for a site called folkfiber com post Jan 28, 2013
it's about osage as dye and it's iterations with mordants to obtain different colours

[simson]

Cook sawdust and scrapes from osage for some hours til you get a thick soup, add some alcohol (to prevent fungus infection) and you have a dye to age fresh osage to look like years old.