You can paint India Ink on silk and it will stay as long as you steam it. I am teaching a workshop utilizing this technique and others at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in June 2012.
-tea -opium -saltpetre -indigo dye -silk -cotton
they dye the paper using inks and pigments
Regular dye.
The British East India Company, which monopolized trade in India, traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, and opium
they dye the paper using inks and pigments
You can't dye silk in Runescape because Jagex hasn't made a feature to do so.
That would depend on the colour (color) of the ink.
Nope. Silk is white. If you dye into green, it will turn in to green.
Never ever use bleach on silk!
Tirupati Inks,
To get ivory silk flowers to turn white, you will have to dye them. You can do this buy purchasing white dye. Mix the dye in a bucket, wearing gloves, tip each flower head into the dye for the recommended period of time suggested on the box.
Silk is such a perfect fibre as it is, the only improvement you can make may be to dye it a different colour.