Sentences with phrase «from dyewood»
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.
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In the last half of the 1500's the logwoods and dyewoods from the area were in demand in Europe, and the Spanish kept close control of their cutting and export.