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Logwood Dye

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.

Time Required: 12 hours

  • Use clean, premordanted wool or yarn.
  • Measure the Logwood chips or sawdust (25% - 50% WOG) into a nylon stocking and into small dish.
  • Add water and allow to sit overnight.
  • 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.
  • Cotton/Hemp blend yarn dyed with Logwood
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