safflower

Ingredients

safflower, saffron

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

To achieve an orange-yellow color, mix safflower with saffron and dye the leather. For a pure yellow, use saffron alone.

Evidence

"If you want to dye it yellow, which is the color of two oranges, and from it yellow, then the orange one is that you mix the safflower with saffron and dye the leather with it. As for the yellow, it is that the leather is soaked $^{(5)}$ all of it or dry so it does not benefit. If you want to dye with saffron alone..."

Remarks

The intensity and hue of yellow are controlled by the ratio of safflower to saffron. Soaking with *ihlilaj* water is mentioned as a general step for these dyes.