almogen

Updated: June 6, 2025

The fresh root is crushed to a soft paste on the metate, and, for a mordant, the almogen is added while the grinding is going on. The cold paste is then rubbed between the hands into the wool. If the wool does not seem to take the color readily a little water is dashed on the mixture of wool and paste, and the whole is very slightly warmed.

Washington Matthews - Navajo weavers: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392.