NOUN
- medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped
- a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree
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- Logwood is not only used for dyeing blacks and greys as the principal colouring matter, but is also used as a shading colour along with cutch, fustic, quercitron, etc., in dyeing olives, browns, etc., and among the recipes given in this section examples of its use in this direction will be found. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- _ -- Work for twenty minutes at 80° F. in a bath of 10 lb. fustic extract, 5 lb. quercitron extract, 2 lb. logwood extract; heat to boil, work for half an hour, then enter in a cold bath of 2 lb. sodium bichromate and 5 lb. copper sulphate; work for twenty minutes, then heat to boil; work for twenty minutes more, wash and dry. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- 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
- Few previously unknown natural coloring sources brought into Europe at this time proved to have widespread commercial success; quercitron is the only example that comes readily to mind. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Bancroft's persuasive abilities were considerable: His 1775 patent for the sale of quercitron in Britain was renewed when he argued that war hindered his ability to exploit its rights. 43 Once the patent was extended, Bancroft turned to the Council of Commerce in Paris for a similar privilege in France; he controlled access to this improved coloring material and its coloring technique in both countries until his death. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- About the time of the Revolution the town became a well-known station for the export of quercitron bark, and all the while the clacking mills were busy along the uneasy rapids of the Brandywine. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
- Yellow dyes from native lichens and tree bark were replaced by Old Fustic, a flowering plant, and quercitron bark, both from North America.
- The usual methods of applying all the other dye-woods, to obtain scarlets to reds with Brazil wood, Lima wood, peach wood; or yellows with fustic, quercitron or Persian berries, is to first prepare the cotton with sumac, then mordant with alumina acetate or tin crystals The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- The dye-woods -- fustic, Brazil wood, bar wood, Lima wood, cam wood, cutch, peach wood, quercitron bark, Persian berries -- have since the introduction of the direct dyes lost much of their importance and are now little used. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- Yellow dyes are chiefly given us by weld (sometimes called wild mignonette), quercitron bark (above mentioned), and old fustic, an American dye-wood.