"Barwood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anthracene, and madder and garancine are almost things of the past. Vegetable adjective colours are Brazil wood, containing the dye-generating principle Brasilin, logwood, containing Haematein, and santal-wood, camwood, and barwood, containing Santalin. Animal adjective colours are cochineal and lac dye. Then of wood colours we have further: quercitron, Persian berries, fustic and the tannins or tannic acids, comprising extracts, barks, fruits, and gallnuts, with also leaves and twigs, as with sumac. All ...
— The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing - Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association • Watson Smith |
