sinew dye?

[iowabow]

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to dye sinew so that it had color.  I was thinking about using bloodroot.  Any thoughts guys. 

[MWirwicki]

I just tried shoe polish.  It seemed to work ok.

[iowabow]

I think it would be cool if we could get a post here on the different things that can dye sinew different colors. I was hoping that we could identify natural materials. Ok to night I am going to try walnut for black or brown and I think I have some bloodroot left for orange.

[Pat B]

Try polk berrys for red or purple, onion peels or osage dust for yellow.
  You can get lots of colors from Rit dye or even unflavored Kool-Ade.

[iowabow]

good calls pat

[Rick Wallace]

I recently dyed some bone with food coloring,,A few drops of color in a quart jar,water and a teaspoon of vinegar. just like easter egg dye.  Works great,dont see why it wouldnt work on sinew.    Its cheap to!!

[Christian]

I use blood a lot to paint my bows and arrows. Maybe one can mix some blood into the hide glue?

[JW_Halverson]

If you add dye to the warm water that you use to re-hydrate the sinew and maybe even some in the hide glue you could affect the color of the sinew, too.  But your fingers are gonna get stained too.

[bowtarist]

My boys and I have had some poke berries started for about two weeks.  I'll post once we get somethin' goin' w/ it.  Lots of yellow dye plants out there this time of year.  Walnut will end up brown or yellow.  I like the way real sinew looks to be honest w/ ya. 

[IsaacW]

As a younger man, I was drinking red Kool-Aid and when I started to use my sinew to apply fleshing (I wet it in my mouth)... it all turned red. 

Sorry, that is not what I would use for dye, but it was a real and unintended event.

IW

[bowtarist]

Nice one IW.  Real life experiances.  Look up dye plants on the intranet, seems to me sinew can be dyed w/ little effort.