Fustic

At last, Friday pitch'd upon a Tree, for I found he knew much better than I what kind of Wood was fittest for it, nor can I tell to this Day what Wood to call the Tree we cut down, except that it was very like the Tree we call Fustic or between that and the Nicaragua Wood, for it was much of the same Colour and Smell.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719

In the gullies and grass pieces grew some trees known as Fustic, its hard wood was used for making cart wheels, and again possession of a piece of this tree could land you in jail.

unknown title 2009

In the gullies and grass pieces grew some trees known as Fustic, its hard wood was used for making cart wheels, and again possession of a piece of this tree could land you in jail.

Barbados Underground 2009

_CAMWOOD_, _BARWOOD_, _SANDALWOOD_, _or_ _SANDERSWOOD_, are chiefly used in wool dyeing, with other dye woods (such as Old Fustic, and logwood) for browns.

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet

Fustic, 2 ozs. logwood, 1 oz. madder, and 1 oz. copperas.

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet

Fustic, boiled in soft water, makes the strongest and brightest yellow dye; but saffron, barberry-bush, peach-leaves, or onion-skins, will answer pretty well.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

It is used sometimes for deepening the colour of Fustic or

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet

Copperas is mostly used for the fixing of wool colours (Fustic, etc.) to produce brown shades; the wool being boiled first in a decoction of the dye for about 1 hour, and then for 1/2 an hour with the addition of 5 to 8 per cent of copperas.

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet

Various shades of brownish red can be got by a mixture of madder, fustic and logwood with a Chrome mordant in varying proportions such as 28 per cent Madder, 12 per cent Fustic, 1 per cent Logwood for a brownish claret. 5 per cent Madder, 4 per cent Fustic, 1/2 per cent

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet

Fustic is the wood of _Morus tinctoria_, a tree of Central America.

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet