Sentences with word «dyewood»
What they did find was that the area was rich in dyewood and logwood (also a dye plant).
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A new dye industry finally arose in the late Middle Ages, allowing Catholic cardinals to cloak themselves in scarlet drawn from the shells of tiny kermes insects and tapestry makers to weave with vivid reds from dyewood trees native to India and Brazil.
«Logwood is a valuable dyewood, leguminous, native of Central America.
Johann Rudolf Geigy - Merian was among the fourth generation of Geigys in the dyewood business in Basel; his great - grandfather Johann Rudolf Geigy - Gemuseus had founded the firm one hundred years earlier in 1758.
The Begoña — carrying cacao, dyewood, contraband coins and other treasure — diverted to Santo Domingo, where the captain grounded the sinking ship near shore.
They made a good thing out of logwood, which fetched high prices in London as a dyewood.
Initially, the Baymen cut logwood, a dyewood greatly valued in Europe as the principal dyestuff for the expanding woolen industry.