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I had the idea of adding a splash of color when making wooden ribbons by applying a dye.

 

So I have it a whirl. I used two different kinds of cedar. These are 1 and 3 below. I'm not sure exactly what kind but they are different. 

 

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Using cedar 1 above, it was dipped into a jar of Iron Acetate. This is the result as shown in 2 below.

 

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Next you see cedar 3 (the second kind of cedar) below

 

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It was dipped into the same jar of Iron Acetate. This is the result as shown in 4 below

 

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Then I took another ribbon of cedar 3 and dipped it into a Tumeric bath as shown in 5 below

 

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As a side test I took a ribbon of Pine and dipped it into the Tumeric bath as seen in 6 below

 

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The results are all encouraging for applying dyed colors to wooden ribbons.

 

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Thanks for looking!

Feel free to comment, ask questions and thumbs up if you like it!

Cheers!
MrRick

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Posted
47 minutes ago, lew said:

Sweet!

Glad you like it lew! 

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That's a great idea Rick. Those are really cool.

Posted
33 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

That's a great idea Rick. Those are really cool.

 

Thanks Grandpadave52! They are really nice to dress up that special Christmas gift (like for your sweetie)

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