OUR NATURAL DYESTUFFS

Our natural dyes are gathered under the name Ecodye.

This water extract of yellow wood (Morus Tinctoria) is mostly known under the name of Old Fustic.

Dyeing on textile fibres gives quite sustained yellow shades, sensitive to oxidation and the colours obtained change according to the mordants used : from yellow to brown shades.

Hematines

Hematines are Logwood extracts (Heamatoxylon Campechianum) more or less oxidised.

In the history of natural dyes,Logwood is unavoidable because it is the only dyestuff which permits to obtain very beautiful black shades.

For the dyeing of wool, it is better to use oxidised hematines such as the hematine HP. Hematin HP can also be used on silk.

For the dyeing of silk and cotton, it is better to use hematines which are not oxidised as the hematine NO200.

We also propose hematines with intermediate oxidation degrees. The hematine NHCK, for example, is semi-oxidised.

Dyeing process changes with the type of hematine which is used and with the textile material.

On wool, we can obtain a range of violet to bluish black (violet on alum, bluish black on dicromate).

On silk we can obtain the same type of range than on wool. The shades obtained on cotton are from beige to green colours.

Ecodye green

This 100% natural dye is a mixture of various natural dyes. It permits to obtain a green range.

Ecodye CPCF

It is a cutch extract. Its field of colour spreads from brown to orange colours.

Ecodye AF

This is a wood extract (from different woods). It gives beige to brown shades.

We will soon propose two other dyes

Ecodye red

The Ecodye red is a vegetable dye which gives red to orange shades.

Ecodye carmin

The Ecodye carmin, from animal spring, gives pink to violet shades.