Alum
Aluminum Potasium Sulfate
used as a mordant in natural dyeing
How to Make an Alum Mordant
Brazilwood
A natural dye substance that gives reds, purples, and pinks and corals.. Brazilwood can be obtained from several trees: Haematoxylum brasiletta, Caesalpinia sappan, C. echinata
How to Dye with Brazilwood
Logwood
Haematoxylum campechianum
Logwood comes from a tree native to the West Indies and the Yucatan Peninsula. The heartwood yields a dye that gives pinks, blues, purples and greens depending on the mordants.
How to Dye with Logwood
Osage Orange
Maclura pomifera
Osage Orange comes from a tree native to Arkansas and Texas. Its wood makes a clear lemon yellow dye.
How to Dye with Osage Orange
Red Sandalwood
Pterocarpus antalinus
Red Sandalwood comes for a tree native to India and Indonesia. The dyesubstance is from the heartwood and yields oranges, browns and auburn shades of colour.
How to Dye with Red Sandalwood
Tara Powder
Caesaipina Spinosa
- used as a mordant in natural dyeing of cottons and linens
How to Mordant Cottons and Linens
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