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Alum Mordant

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A named dye mordant / fixer lemma (Alum Mordant) drawn from public-domain dyeing and household-receipt speech (Beech / Hale).

Alum Mordant is historically related to Ochre.
henley-formulas seats orphan alum-mordant beside ochre as a first craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
from Gardner Dexter Hiscox (ed.) · Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes, 1914 (Gutenberg #53143; PD in the USA)
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Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes · Gardner Dexter Hiscox (ed.)
Gardner D. Hiscox (ed.), Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes (1914).