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Brazilwood or Brazil from Brazil, producing a red dye. Catechu or cutch from Acacia wood, producing a dark brown dye. [1] Old Fustic from India and Africa, producing a yellow dye. [2] Logwood from Belize, producing a red or purple dye. [3]
Reddish brown - Ruadh The dark purple lichen ‘cen cerig cen du' (gun chéire gun dubh – i.e. neither crimson nor black) treated in the same way as the lichen for the claret dye. Philamot Yellowish "crotal" (type of lichen), the colour of dead leaves – Parmelia saxatilis [2] Drab or fawn Birch bark, Betula pubescens
Brazilwood is a red-brown dye from either of two related trees. The original brazilwood, sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), is native to India and was exported to China by 900 BCE and to Europe via the Muslim world by the Early Middle Ages. Portuguese explorers discovered a similar tree growing in the New World and named the surrounding country ...
Cutch is an ancient brown dye from the wood of acacia trees, particularly Acacia catechu, used in India for dyeing cotton. Cutch gives gray-browns with an iron mordant and olive-browns with copper. [49] Black walnut (Juglans nigra) is used by Cherokee artists to produce a deep brown approaching black. [28]
Brown FK: Kipper brown Food Brown 1 azo 8062-14-4: Brown HT: Chocolate brown HT Food Brown 3 20285 diazo 4553-89-3: Brown MX-5BR: Reactive brown 10 179060 azo 12225-67-1: Cadmium acetate: 77185 inorganic 543-90-8: Calcofluor white Fluorescent brightener 28 40622 stilbene 4193-55-9: Calconcarboxylic acid: Patton and Reeder's indicator azo 3737 ...
The chestnut tree has also been used since ancient times as a source brown dye. The bark of the tree, the leaves and the husk of the nuts have all been used to make dye. The leaves were used to make a beige or yellowish-brown dye, and in the Ottoman Empire the yellow-brown from chestnut leaves was combined with indigo blue to make shades of ...
Lannea welwitschii is a species of tree in the family Anacardiaceae. [3] [4] It is native to the tropical rainforests of West and Central Africa.The timber is used to make furniture and utensils and for many other purposes, the fruits can be eaten, and the bark is used to produce a dye, for making rope and in traditional medicine.
Weld, fustic, and quercitron bark were carried as staple items in drug stores and general merchandise establishments. Sometimes, the physician kept a small supply of dye stuffs. It was not too uncommon, indeed, to find a jar of indigo next to a laudanum bottle and a box of quercitron associating with unrefined quinine.