Results for "natural dye"
19 colours found.
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Purple and violet
Tyrian purple
A reddish-purple dye once worth its weight in silver, made from sea snailsDye 路 馃嚤馃嚙 Lebanon +4
Blue
Haematoxylin
A natural dye from logwood, best known for staining cell nuclei in histologyDye 路 馃嚨馃嚟 Philippines
Brown
Catechu
A brown plant extract used as a dye, tannin, and preservativeColour named from nature 路 馃嚡馃嚨 Japan +2
Red
Kermes
A deep red dye made from Mediterranean scale insects, once prized for scarlet clothDye 路 馃嚜馃嚞 Egypt +5
Red
Lac啶侧ぞ啶曕啶粪ぞ
A red resin secreted by insects and used as dye, varnish and shellacColour named from nature 路 馃嚠馃嚦 India +5
Red
Abir
A coloured powder used in Hindu rituals and the Holi festivalTraditional colour 路 馃嚠馃嚦 India
Red
Armenian cochineal崭謤栅铡斩 寨铡謤沾斋謤
A crimson dye once prized across Armenia and the Middle East, made from a rare insectDye 路 馃嚘馃嚥 Armenia +4
Red
Santalin
Red pigments obtained from the wood of the red sandalwood treePigment
Blue
Indigofera tinctoria
A shrub whose leaves yield natural indigo dyeColour named from nature 路 馃嚠馃嚦 India +5
Red
Rose madder
A red dye and pigment from the roots of a climbing plantDye 路 馃嚠馃嚦 India +4
Yellow
Goldenseal
A North American herb with a yellow root once used as a dyeColour named from nature 路 馃嚭馃嚫 United States +1
Yellow
Garcinia cowa yellow
A yellow dye from the bark of the Garcinia cowa tree in tropical AsiaColour named from nature 路 馃嚠馃嚦 India +5
Yellow
Old fustic
A yellow dye from a tropical tree, once key for military khakiDye 路 馃嚥馃嚱 Mexico +1
Red
Bloodroot
A red dye from the sap of a North American woodland plantColour named from nature 路 馃嚚馃嚘 Canada
Red
Apoplanesia paniculata red dye
A red dye from a Yucatan tree, once used in Maya murals and paperDye 路 馃嚥馃嚱 Mexico +1
Yellow
Hairy puccoon
A yellow-flowered plant whose roots yield a red dyeColour named from nature 路 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
Yellow
Yellow kamala
A yellow dye from the fruit covering of an Australian rainforest treeDye 路 馃嚘馃嚭 Australia
Yellow
Quercitron
A yellow dye made from the bark of the Eastern Black Oak treeDye
Yellow
Gamboge (from Garcinia cambogioides)
A yellow resin from the Garcinia cambogioides tree, used in food, paint and medicineColour named from nature 路 馃嚠馃嚦 India +2
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tyrian purple: Photograph: U.Name.Me Derivative work: TeKaBe, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haematoxylin: Waughd, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lac: Jeffrey W. Lotz, CC BY 3.0, source
- Catechu: Ma拧a Sinreih in Valentina Vivod, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kermes: MyName ( Gryffindor ) stitched by Marku1988 This panoramic image was c, Public domain, source
- Armenian cochineal: Vahe Martirosyan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Garcinia cowa yellow: Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Abir: Kamalakanta777, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Indigofera tinctoria: Kurt St眉ber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rose madder: Carstor, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gamboge (from Garcinia cambogioides): Franz Eugen K枚hler, K枚hler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, source
- Goldenseal: Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Old fustic: Jorge Vallmitjana, Public domain, source
- Bloodroot: Jason Hollinger, CC BY 2.0, source
- Apoplanesia paniculata red dye: Gaiacoyote, CC0, source
- Hairy puccoon: Crazytwoknobs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Quercitron: Shaddack, Public domain, source