Clothes of the Common People In Elizabethan and Early Stuart England

Volume 6: Dyeing.

This work attempts to identify the nature of those dyestuffs used by common people and the method by which their clothing was dyed.

Chapter	Title	Page
Introduction		3
The Colours of Common Peoples Clothing		4
The Nature of the Colours		6
	Red	7
	Stammel and Scarlet	8
	Blue and Plunket	10
	Green and Yellow	15
	Minor Colours	16
The Dyeing Industry		19
	Commercial Dyers: The Evidence	19
	Commercial Dyers Equipment	24
	Commercial Dyers Premises	33
	Craftsmen Dyers	34
	Poor Country Dyers	25
The Materials		37
	Water	37
	Bran Water	38
Chemicals		40
Dyestuffs		45
Red
	Madder	45
	Brazil Wood	49
	Grain, Kermes and Cochineal	51
Yellow
	Weld	54
	Dyers Broom and Fustic	55
Blue
	Woad	56
	Indigo	66
	Litchen dyes: Orchil, Cork and Litmus	69
	Black and Puke Dyes	72
	Logwood in Compound Dyes	79
The Processes		82
	Dyeing Wool	83
Simple colours:
	Red	84
	Yellow	87
	Blue	88
	Black	94
	Compound colours	96
	Dyeing Silk	100
	Dyeing Linen	101
	Dyeing Leather	102
Experimental History: Reproducing period dyeing		103
Appendix 1: Replicating period dyed fabrics		112
Glossary, Bibliography and Abbreviations		116