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/ˈɫɑˌɡwʊd/
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- spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye
- very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
How To Use logwood In A Sentence
- Logwood, also, if mordanted with alum, gives a mauve colour; if mordanted with chrome, it gives a blue. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
- Commercial extract of logwood extracted from the wood by boiling water contains both hematoxylin and hematein.
- Its use was legalized in 1673 by an act, the preamble of which reads, "The ingenious industry of modern times hath taught the dyers of England the art of fixing, the colours made of logwood, alias blackwood, so as that, by experience, they are found as lasting as the colours made with any sort of dyeing wood whatever. Forty Centuries of Ink
- In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- While some black synthetic dyes were developed, dyers continued to use logwood to the end of the century, especially for silk.
- With regard to Mr. Watson Smith's observation as to fractional dyeing, he (Mr. Siebold) did not regard this method as a suitable trial for ascertaining the strength of an extract, but he admitted it was occasionally very valuable for detecting an admixture of extracts of other dyewoods, such as quercitron bark extract in logwood extract. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
- There are a number of dye-stuffs or colouring matters like alizarine, logwood, fustic, barwood, cutch, resorcine green, etc., which have no affinity for the cotton fibre, and of themselves will not dye it. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- Mahogany cutting and removal were dramatically more labor-intensive than logwood.
- The methods of employing the much more important group of colouring matters known as the mordant dyes, which comprise such well-known products as logwood, fustic and alizarine, require more attention. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- The region was a habitat for logwood, a species of small tree found in parts of the southwestern Caribbean that was most commonly used to make a black dye.
