saffron

Ingredients

saffron

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

For a pure yellow color, use saffron alone to dye the leather. It is soaked with the *ihlilaj* water, and it is rubbed with the *siwak* hair upon it.

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 passage suggests that the effectiveness of the saffron dye depends on whether the leather is already soaked or dry.