Okay, The file should be attached. Please note that the document focus is upon bundling and dyeing raffia. There are some dye mixture recipes at the document's end. Keep in mind that matching your local vegetation may take some experimenting. Literally, there is no "out of the box/bottle" dye color that is guaranteed to match natural colors. I've done a ton of experimenting and have a good idea of how to match my local conditions (SoCal), but I wonder if they are exactly correct for other places. Like most, I focus upon winter wheat, pasture grass, corn stubble and barley. The good news is that dyed raffia that comes out a wrong color can be bleached and re-dyed. I keep about 1500 dyed raffia bundles in various shades of green, brown, and yellow. All of the recipes require Rit dye, two+ gallons of hot water, plus the detergent and salt called for on the Rit package. You must consider all of the recipes as a starting point as each location has it's own specific look. BTW, Rit has changed the name of "Yellow" to "Lemon Yellow" and "Kelly Green" to "Apple Green" but the original dye colors are unchanged (just the product names). Good luck, Jay

Thanks for Jay for putting this together.

Link to pdf.

E-mail me if you have any questions and I'll get it to Jay.

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