Logwood Dyed Crochet Cotton YarnNATURAL DYES

Natural Dyes Logwood

Logwood Natural Dye
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.

Paivatar - Logwood Natural Dye
Paivatar – Logwood Natural Dye


Time Required:
12 hours

Logwood Dyed Crochet Cotton Yarn
Logwood Dyed Crochet Cotton Yarn
  • Use clean, premordanted wool or yarn.
  • Measure the Logwood chips or sawdust (25% – 50% WOG) into a nylon stocking and into small dish.
  • Add a bit of alcohol or vodka to the Logwood chips and allow to sit overnight. The alcohol helps to extract the colour from the logwood bark
  • The dyebath should be purplish-red. If it is brown, add washing soda, a teaspoon at a time, until the dyebath turns purple-red.
  • Pour the stocking and the water into dyepot filled with hot water and simmer for 1 hour.
  • Add premordanted fibre or yarn into the dyepot and simmer for 1 hour.
  • Allow the dyepot to cool.Remove the fibre or yarn from the dyepot, rinse and let dry.
  • Remove the fibre or yarn from the dyepot, rinse and let dry.

Tips:

  • Try alum or tin premordants.
  • You can reuse the exhaust dyebaths to create other colours.
  • Try overdyeing with Osage Orange for greens, or with Saxon blue Indigo for dark blues.

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