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Natural Dye Recipes

Alum
Aluminum Potasium Sulfate
used as a mordant in natural dyeing
How to Make an Alum Mordant
Cochineal
Dactylopius coccus
Cochineal comes from the crushed bodies of dried insects. The cochineal bugs can be found on prickly pear cacti, in the southern US as well as Peru, Mexico, Canary Islands and Australia. Cochineal yields reds, purples, corals and fushsias, depending on the mordants used.
Cochineal Dye Recipe
How to Dye with Cochineal
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
Brazilwood Dye Recipe
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.
Logwood Dye Recipe
Osage Orange
Maclura pomifera
Osage Orange comes from a tree native to Arkansas and Texas. Its wood makes a clear lemon yellow dye.
Osage Orange Dye Recipe
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.
Sandalwood Dye Recipe
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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