Red purple with cudbear and logwood, 20 with logwood, 30.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference

About 130 tons of cudbear are imported annually from Sweden.    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

A lighter colour is got by dyeing with 8 lbs. cudbear, 1/2 lb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference

Dye with 8 per cent fustic, 2 per cent madder, 1 per cent cudbear, 2 per cent tartar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference

Mordant by boiling with 4 lb. alum and 1 lb. argol, then dye with 6 lb. logwood, 6 oz. cudbear and 3 oz. indigo extract.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference

One pound of cudbear will dye three pounds of wool a good pompadour, and nine pound does the same to twenty seven yards of superfine cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

In 1758, Cuthbert Gordon received a British patent for a substance he called cudbear, the result of a new processing method he developed for the traditional dyestuff orchil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Archil may be regarded as the English, cudbear as the Scotch, and litmus as the Dutch name for one and the same substance, extracted from several species of lichens by various processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

I found no less than three yielded beautiful purple-red colors, apparently as fine as orchil or cudbear, while the others furnished rich and dark tints of brownish-red, brown and olive-green.    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

Specimens of varieties of the lichens used in the manufacture of cudbear, orchil and litmus, and of the substance obtained, were also shown in the British department, which were awarded prize medals.    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

Pliny, down to the present day, sketching briefly the ancient end modern history of orchil, cudbear, and litmus, and specifying the native use of lichen-dyes in different, countries of Europe, Asia, and America.    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

His technique improved the stability of the popular but fragile violets and purples this lichen produced. 1 Gordon, who was a merchant, and his brother, a coppersmith, formed a partnership to sell cudbear, supplying printers and dyers throughout Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Cuthbert Gordon's petition to the Society of Artsincluded seventy-eight different samples of colors made from his discovery, cudbear, and he noted that certain quantities of this coloring material would make pompadour color. reference As a name for a color, pompadour first appeared in England in the mid 1750s.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

We intend to render a service to our readers by calling their special attention to some products of the coal-tar industry which are free from these defects of aniline dyestuffs, and for which it is claimed that they far surpass logwood, fustic, cudbear, etc., as to fastness against light, and excellently stand fulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference

Near to the cudbear manufacture, is juft now commenced a bufinefs carried on by George and Charles Mackintofh, en - tirely new in this, or, we believe, in any other country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes] Reference

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Several announcements of "Feed," whatever that may be, -- not restaurant dinners, anyhow, -- also of "Shorts," -- terms mysterious to city ears as jute and cudbear and gunnybags to such as drive oxen in the remote interior districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian Angel] Reference

In 1765, their firm offered a color sample card that included 78 "cudbear colors," ranging through all the red-purples to the violet-blues that you might expect from a coloring material well known to scientists as an acid-base color indicator. 2 reference The timing of the development and use of this new coloring process makes it fitting, and perhaps not coincidental, that cudbear could be used to produce pompadour, a fashionable color that first appeared in Britain in the mid-1750s. 2 Web Link.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Cuthbert Gordon credits the development of cudbear in this way; he claimed to find a plentiful source for a certain lichen and, knowing that the purple colors it made are easily destroyed by light, set himself to find a stabilization method. reference Similarly, Jean-Baptiste Pont's descriptions of his inspiration for finding a more efficient dye extraction process was, he claimed, based on knowledge of the high cost of cochineal. reference Other petitions — Johann Carl Barth's for a privilege in Saxony to produce a blue dye from lacmus, for instance — do not mention the discovery process at all but concentrate instead on the economic advantage of the production method and the deliberation that its reworking demanded. 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Peculiar substances existing in these plants are, during this process, so changed by the combined action of the atmosphere, water, and ammonia, as to generate the coloring matter, which, when perfect, is pressed out, and gypsum, chalk, or other substances, are then added, so as to give it the desired consistency; these are then prepared for the market under the forms of cudbear or litmus.    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