Red comes next to this which is mostly obtained of camwood, another domestic employment of the women. From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference
Is a coarse kind of lake, produced by dyeing chalk or whitening with decoction of Brazil wood, peachwood, sapan, bar, camwood, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Another plan which has been followed is to give the wool a bottom with 5 to 6 lb. of camwood or peachwood, then mordanting and dyeing us usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
About thirty miles east of Bassia Cove, in the republic of Liberia, is the commencement of a region of unknown extent, where scarcely any tree is seen except the camwood. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Abnormal properties are found to be exhibited by camwood and its allies, with aluminum and tin, the colors at first becoming darker, and only afterward fading in the normal manner. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
This method is more particularly applicable to such dye-stuffs as camwood, cutch, logwood, madder, fustic, etc., the colouring principles of which have some affinity for the wool fibre and will directly combine with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
In some cases the methods of mordanting, dyeing and saddening are combined together in the dyeing of wool, thus, for instance, a brown can be dyed by first mordanting with bichrome, then dyeing with camwood and saddening in the same bath with copperas. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
The camwood (?) is here called molombwa, and grows very abundantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
This they smeared with a paint made by the admixture of camwood and copal gum. From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
His face was streaked red with camwood, and around his eyes he had painted two white circles. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the King's Peace] Reference
The type of this growth is the red camwood-tree, with its white flower of the sweetest savour. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
They are the great producers of palm oil and camwood, which are sold to foreigners by thousands of tons annually. From Wordnik.com. [Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.] Reference
Other exports are caoutchouc, ebony (of which the best comes from the Congo), and camwood or barwood (a Tephrosia). From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
The captain receives payment, whether in cash or commodities, and weighs the camwood, or measures the palm-oil, at the merchant's store. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference
He was tall and knobby-kneed, spoke with a squeak at the end of his deeper sentences, and about his tired eyes he had made a red circle with camwood. From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
On the first day following the tax palaver Bosambo went down the river with four canoes, each canoe painted beautifully with camwood and gum, and with twenty-four paddlers. From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
Still, she must have looked really engaging in a thin pattern of tattoo, a gauze work of oil and camwood, a dwarf pigeon tail of fan palm for an apron, and copper bracelets and anklets. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
With respect to the native head-dresses the colouring-matter, "nkola," which seems to be camwood, is placed as an ornament on the head, and some is put on the bark-cloth to give it a pleasant appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
Bizaro, mustering his force, came gaily through the sun-splashed aisles of the forest, his face streaked hideously with camwood, his big elephant spear twirled between his fingers, and behind him straggled his cosmopolitan force. From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
Moreover, the natives, always preferring the excitement of war to the labors of peace, neglect the culture of the earth, and have no camwood nor palm-oil to offer to the honest trader, who consequently finds neither buyers nor sellers among them. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference
This is the answer: -- "The articles of trade are palm oil, palm kernels, coffee, ivory, camwood, ginger, and rubber. From Wordnik.com. [Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave] Reference
“nkola,” which seems to be camwood, is placed as an ornament on the head, and some is put on the bark-cloth to give it a pleasant appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death]
“pickaback” on a man's shoulders; a nice, modest, good-looking young woman, her hair rubbed all over with nkola, a red pigment, made from the camwood, and much used as an ornament. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death]
8 lb. camwood, then lay down for fifty minutes in a boiling bath of. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
But if he buy a slave, this latter commodity will not only walk, but bring a load of camwood on his back. ". From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference
Advising best practice for successfully migrating thousands of applications and tens of thousands of users all over the world, the eBook is available immediately from: http://www. camwood.com/resources-2/. From Wordnik.com. [Releases feed from RealWire]
35 ibuth of Sierra Leona, which drives a conliderable trade with camwood, yielding a red colour, ufed by the dyers. From Wordnik.com. [A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America] Reference
Nicaragua wood, barwood, camwood, red Sanders wood, Brazil wood, and sappan wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The articles of trade are coffee, ivory, camwood, palm oil, ginger, dye-woods, rubber, gum, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave] Reference
The latter consisted chiefly of rubber, palm oil and kernels, coffee, piassava fiber, ivory, ginger, camwood, and arnotto. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro] Reference
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