| Summary: | mollyfodge Little is written about traditional New- foundland dyeing. Much like cooking re- cipes, dye recipes were passed on by word of mouth rather than being written down. Mrs. Heffernan of Salvage, Eastport Peninsula, is one of the few people around who has con- tinued to dye her yarns with plant colours. She and her husband founded (and for many years maintained) the Salvage Museum. One of the Museum's exhibits contains samples of her hand-spun yarns, some of which are coloured with her own dyes. One of her favourites, and now one of mine, is "mollyfodge," a grey rock lichen which produces a deep rich chocolate brown that she used on rags which were then hooked into rugs. Another group of lichens which grow on rocks (the "rock tripes" mentioned above) produce an incredible range of colours from a pale pink, to deep rose, and on through the spectrum to a 'grapey' purple. And speaking of grapes, some of our wild berries also produce colour. If you should happen to collect a surplus, you might try extracting PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit JH 10/76 JH 10/76 Used I Used I used I
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