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Natural Dyes and Mordants - All Fiber Arts | |
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Natural Dyes and Mordants | ||
| Alum Aluminum Potasium Sulfate used as a mordant in natural dyeing | How to Make an Alum Mordant |
| 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 | How to Dye with Brazilwood |
| 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. | How to Dye with Logwood |
| Osage Orange Maclura pomifera Osage Orange comes from a tree native to Arkansas and Texas. Its wood makes a clear lemon yellow dye. | How to Dye with Osage Orange |
| 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. | How to Dye with Red Sandalwood |
| 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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