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How to Dye a White Cloth
In the old fashioned way of dyeing cloth that i witnessed in india in my early days there, you take a white cloth and if you want to dye it a particular color, then the cloth dyers would dip it into a vat of vegetable dye. And after a few hours in bright sunshine, the cloth is only a kind of dingy yellow, no longer deep saffron. So the knowledgeable cloth dyer then takes the cloth and presses it down into the dye again, saturates it again, and then once again, back to the sunshine. This alternating of deeply dyeing the cloth and then testing it through fading and bleaching in the sun causes the cloth to retain