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Dhammavavro pulls his jiworn from the final dye solution, where it soaked for two hours. The number and duration of baths determine color density and uniformity in a robe - often cloth must be saturated in dye many times for a rich and even color.

20200904_dhammavaro_final_09.jpg Dhammavaro wears heavy gloves to manipulate cloth soaking in the boiling reduction bath, which helps to saturate the garment with dye. Beginning with two 40-gallon barrels of madrone bark, the resulting dye would fill only a single, 10-gallon pot.ThumbnailsDye drips from Dhammavavro's arm as he hangs his jiworn from a clothesline outside the monks' utility building.Dhammavaro wears heavy gloves to manipulate cloth soaking in the boiling reduction bath, which helps to saturate the garment with dye. Beginning with two 40-gallon barrels of madrone bark, the resulting dye would fill only a single, 10-gallon pot.ThumbnailsDye drips from Dhammavavro's arm as he hangs his jiworn from a clothesline outside the monks' utility building.Dhammavaro wears heavy gloves to manipulate cloth soaking in the boiling reduction bath, which helps to saturate the garment with dye. Beginning with two 40-gallon barrels of madrone bark, the resulting dye would fill only a single, 10-gallon pot.ThumbnailsDye drips from Dhammavavro's arm as he hangs his jiworn from a clothesline outside the monks' utility building.Dhammavaro wears heavy gloves to manipulate cloth soaking in the boiling reduction bath, which helps to saturate the garment with dye. Beginning with two 40-gallon barrels of madrone bark, the resulting dye would fill only a single, 10-gallon pot.ThumbnailsDye drips from Dhammavavro's arm as he hangs his jiworn from a clothesline outside the monks' utility building.Dhammavaro wears heavy gloves to manipulate cloth soaking in the boiling reduction bath, which helps to saturate the garment with dye. Beginning with two 40-gallon barrels of madrone bark, the resulting dye would fill only a single, 10-gallon pot.ThumbnailsDye drips from Dhammavavro's arm as he hangs his jiworn from a clothesline outside the monks' utility building.Dhammavaro wears heavy gloves to manipulate cloth soaking in the boiling reduction bath, which helps to saturate the garment with dye. Beginning with two 40-gallon barrels of madrone bark, the resulting dye would fill only a single, 10-gallon pot.ThumbnailsDye drips from Dhammavavro's arm as he hangs his jiworn from a clothesline outside the monks' utility building.Dhammavaro wears heavy gloves to manipulate cloth soaking in the boiling reduction bath, which helps to saturate the garment with dye. Beginning with two 40-gallon barrels of madrone bark, the resulting dye would fill only a single, 10-gallon pot.ThumbnailsDye drips from Dhammavavro's arm as he hangs his jiworn from a clothesline outside the monks' utility building.
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