#logwood

Look at the richness and color!!!!

Ice dyeing is a fun way to create colorful patterns on fiber using natural color. Freezing fresh or exhaust dyes into ice cubes welcomes a diffused watercolor palette. Adding a layer of dried dye flowers to the frozen mix will invite punches of vivid hues on top. The combination is a lovely way to create tie dye effects to your favorite textiles. Plus, with the help of some common household products, colors can be shifted to expand the rainbow of hues. This tutorial will show you how to ice dye with frozen exhaust dyes & dried flowers, shift color with pH modifiers as well as the resulting effect on cotton.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro - Ice dyeing with exhaust

1:22 Ice & natural color

2:37 Exhaust dyes

2:57 Making ice

3:38 Cotton fiber

4:20 Color modifiers

4:53 Studio set-up

5:34 Ice cube build

7:30 Midway thaw

8:27 Exhaust reveal

12:18 Dried flowers

13:42 Second ice build

15:41 Final thaw results

18:11 Ice dye comparison

19:58 Wrap up

20:48 Sneak peek of next tutorial

21:19 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Exhaust dyes - madder, sulfur cosmos, marigold, logwood & hollyhock

Dried dye matter - calendula, dyer's chamomile, yarrow, scabiosa/pincushion, hollyhock, madder root, logwood

Ice

Ice molds

Strainer

Pot

Modifiers - citric acid, washing soda & ferrous sulfate used in video

Mordant - alum acetate used in video

On the 6th of February, 1680, English logwood poachers bound for Jamaica were attacked by Spanish piraguas led by Felipe de la Barreda y Villegas; an act of revenge against the English for the previous actions of English pirates Edward Neville and George Spurre.

Two years prior, Neville and Spurre had sacked Campeche in 1678. The English poachers were transporting logwood, an extremely valuable wood, stolen from the Mexican Laguna de Terminos. Logwood is a Caribbean tree, and its main use was for dyeing textiles and leather (however medicinal purposes also included treating diarrhea and excessive bleeding). Spain had claimed all of Central and South America, and with other countries eager for the logwood, the Spanish had to be on alert for logwood poachers; those who would come, harvest the wood and attempt to leave Spanish territory to sell the goods elsewhere.

This capture, taken out of vengeance, ended up being so profitable for the Spanish, considering the amount of already harvested logwood on board, that they contracted Juan Corso to continue similar attacks. Juan Corso was a Corsican (French) pirate, turned privateer who operated out of Cuba, along with Pedro de Castro.

In the aftermath of the events of February the 6th, the two would continue Spain’s bidding by assaulting numerous ships along the Yucatan coastline that were trying to leave with the precious logwood.