This fruit, whose Latin roots mean “seeded apple,” was thought to be the original forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. The small tree was first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent area of Turkey around the confluence of the Tigress and Euphrates Rivers and it does grow wild there, though much smaller than in irrigated […]

Colors: orange to warm yellow – flowers,  greenish-yellow – plant tops, leaves deep forest green, over-dyed with a light indigo – khaki green – iron modifier after dyeing Mordant: for cellulose (plant source like cotton, linen, hemp) – 8% WOF* clear tannin, like gallnuts and 15% WOF potassium alum; for protein (animal source like wool, […]