Steaming Equipment

material is steamed for 1 1/2 hour,longer for large cotton bundles
A copper boiler of my mothers is used to hold the water. My husband made the ‘chimney’ for bundles from the tin that used to cover my pit. fire

creating dye from rhubarb leaves

small bundles

Steam has a high BTU. It can pass over the bundles without compromising adjacent bundles.

Pails of dyes created from plants on my acreage

creating dyes by fermenting pine cones