Which risk increased when Byzantine silk dyers used urine?

💡 Explanation

Faster pattern color fading was a risk because the urea acted as an alkaline mordant accelerating hydrolytic dye degradation rather than aiding fixation. Therefore, images faded, rather than resisting photochemical damage because the unstable bond between dye and fiber.

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