| The early settlers were attracted by the logwood, from which was extracted dyes used by the Lancashire cotton industry. |
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| Mahogany cutting and removal were dramatically more labor-intensive than logwood. |
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| While some black synthetic dyes were developed, dyers continued to use logwood to the end of the century, especially for silk. |
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| On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry. |
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| Some of the early privateers settled in these waterlogged plains, cutting and selling logwood as a means to generating wealth. |
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| Commercial extract of logwood extracted from the wood by boiling water contains both hematoxylin and hematein. |
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| The many disputes and difficulties that arose over the rights of growing and cutting logwood are a matter of history. |
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| Heartwood extracts of the logwood tree, Haematoxylon campechianum, yield hematoxylin, which oxidizes to hematein during isolation. |
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| British buccaneers and logwood cutters settled on the inhospitable coast in the mid-17th century. |
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| British adventurers apparently settled the area in the 17th century and engaged in logwood cutting. |
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| The personal procurement of logwood for all types of European timber produced by us forms the corner stone for the qualities required. |
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| The usual black stain was made by boiling logwood in water to which an iron-acid solution or a tin-acid solution was added later. |
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| His tools were quill pens cut from large feathers, and ink made from oak galls, iron, and gum arabic, often with a colorant such as logwood added to the initially pale ink. |
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| Today only one natural dye, logwood, is used commercially, to a small degree, to dye silk, leather, and nylon black. |
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| The region was a habitat for logwood, a species of small tree found in parts of the southwestern Caribbean that was most commonly used to make a black dye. |
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| The pear veneer is dyed black with some logwood and ferrous sulphate. |
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| In America scarlet was created from the cochineal beetle, black from logwood and yellow from quercitron. |
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| The regions toward western Campeche as well as those in Belize have sufficient rainfall to support forests containing mahogany, sapodilla, vanilla, logwood, and other dyewoods. |
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| There are also thatch palms and some logwood and mahogany trees. |
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| Nut 1 brown coal and dry logwood are recommended as fuel. |
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| For subcontracted work on our logwood at various veneer works, we are always present in person. For cutting to size, we stipulate the desired veneer lengths. |
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| The dyes used in this shawl are indigo for the blues and purples, saffron for the cold and warm yellows, logwood for the red, cochineal for the crimson, and iron filings for the black. |
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| The Spanish granted the British settlers the right to occupy the area and cut logwood in exchange for helping to suppress piracy. |
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| Dyes from the New World such as cochineal and logwood were brought to Europe by the Spanish treasure fleets, and the dyestuffs of Europe were carried by colonists to America. |
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| After waiting here in vain for the rest of the fleet, they sailed south to another bay, where they stayed for five months, building a fort and loading logwood. |
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| In March 1718, while taking on water at Turneffe Island east of Belize, both ships spotted the Jamaican logwood cutting sloop Adventure making for the harbour. |
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| Part of the main prayer room of the Masjid-E-Zaninabia mosque in Logwood Street was damaged by fire and badly smokelogged around 6pm yesterday. |
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