[Rockhounds] Ink coloring minerals

[Jeanette Wimpee]

Anyone who's ever played in the dirt (red clay) of Alabama or Georgia will 
attest to the durability of the colors. There's a lady in Alabama who made a 
mint marketing "Alabama Red Dirt Shirts" in the gift shops many years ago.
We bought a naturally dyed, from some kind of lava, gray "dirt shirt" while 
we were in Hawaii. Got the gray cuz we had had plenty of unintentional red 
dirt shirts in our lifetime.
Jeanette

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty & Bill Heacox" <kahako at hawaiiantel.net>


> This isn't very profound, but the clay-rich soils of Hawaii make very 
> permanent dyes, as in Red Dirt Shirts
>   (  http://www.dirtshirt.com/  ).  I imagine red soil would exist in 
> other places, and anyone who has tried to launder such dirt stains from 
> clothing would attest to their effective permanence.  Should work for ink 
> as well for a rich reddish brown.
>
> Aloha, Kitty
>