LOGWOOD DYE
LOGWOOD ~ Available Cut or ground and as extract*
(Bois de Campeche, Campeachy Wood)
*Collected in the Wild (foraged) in Haiti
Logwood is a natural dye wood from Central America, used for producing blues and purples on wool, black on cotton and wool, and black and violet on silk.
Logwood is PH sensitive.
It is called by old dyers one of the Lesser Dyes because the colour was said to lose all its brightness when exposed to the air.
Colourfastness: poor
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Basic Recipe:
65g bark, soaked in water for 2 days.
100g mordanted yarn/fibre (Alum 10g)
Bring pot with dye to simmer For 2h.
Strain through cloth, add yarn/fibre and dye bag to dye bath for 1h.
Rinse.
The logwood chips should be put in a bag and boiled for 20 minutes to 1/2 an hour, just before using or soak overnight, bring to the boil in the morning for 1h, strain and bind into bag.
* When using extract you only need to use 5-10% of the weight of your dry fabric. Logwood is one of the more excessive dyes - a little goes a long way - especially when using extract.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
MALLOW ROSE BLACK ~ Hollyhock
latin: Malvae arbor. Flor. tot.
botanical: Alcea rosea L.
Suitable for eco printing and dyeing. Black mallow will leave some gorgeous purple-blue, violet prints on fabric. I only have used them in eco printing and can confirm that Mallow prints will last for a number of years, depending on light exposure and washing.
Tips:
*use an iron mordant for deep to black prints
** use a standard mordant procedure for overall dye or print
*** only petals/flowers are used
Colour fastness: weak to medium (if a mordant is used and due to the presence of anthocyanin in the flowers)
DYER'S BROOM ~ Cut dyer's Broom
Dyer's Broom cut
Traditionally used for dyeing yellow and green. The green will be more on the tan side.
Basic recipe:
100% Broom
10% Alum
3% Iron as green option
Mordant as required, extract broom in 85C degrees Celsius for 1h. Remove dye, switch off pot and add your item and leave overnight. Treat with iron as an after mordant. Rinse, wash.
Colour fastness: medium
BLACK BEANS
Black Beans or Black Turtle Beans ~ known generally to the cooking world, this bean makes a wonderful food dye. Not necessarily very colourfast, it matures into a beautiful ceramic colour - silver grey with a touch of blue. Because you are only using the soaking water, you can use the beans for cooking afterwards, making it a very 'no waste' food dye.
NOTE: Ph sensitive, not wash and light fast
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Basic Recipe:
100% Dried Black Beans
100g Cream of Tartar
Fibre/Fabric
After you have soaked the beans in cold water overnight - remember we want the soaking liquid so don't drain it away!
Fill a big pot with fresh water
Stir the beans to extract as much colour as possible.
Take a sieve and drain the liquid into the pot.
Put the beans back into the pot and fill with water again, stir than drain into pot.
add 100g of Cream of tartar to the dyebath.
add the table cloth bring to 80 degrees for 1 hour.
Leave overnight or 12 hours.
Rinse and dry.