Logwood Dye

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.

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