Definition of "mordanting" []

• Present participle of mordant. (verb)

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• "This method of indirect dyeing is known as the mordanting process; it consists of saturating the fabric to be dyed with chemicals which will unite with the coloring matter to form compounds unaffected by water."
• "There was water close at hand—rainwater in cisterns under the courtyard, or the spring in the fountain house we used for drinking water, or the river itself—but for mordanting Nasthai insisted on the pure mountain water that flowed all the way from the Ferinus on a stone causeway."
• "The technique, once discovered and improved, became a standard for bright scarlet, supplanting the more traditional alum-mordanting process and ultimately replacing Venetian scarlet as the most desirable red color."