Dyes -- Sources
Albany [Ga.] Patriot,
February 16, 1865, p. 2, c. 3 [pumpkin/pokeberry]; March 2,
1865, p. 1, c. 2 [beech].
Bellville [TX] Countryman, May 31, 1862, p. 1, c. 3 [moss]; October 11, 1862,
p.
2, c. 3
January 17, 1863, p.
leaves]; September 27, 1864, p. 2,
p. 1, c. 2 [oak,
black jack].
Brown, Fannie. "Diary of
Fannie Brown, Jan 1, 1863 thru Aug 25, 1864."
Photocopy.
Burroughs, Frances M. "The
Confederate Receipt Book: A Study
of Food
Substitution
Magazine
93 no. 1 (January
Charleston Mercury, November 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Columbus [GA] Enquirer, April 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 8 [black oak; oak, red/maple;
oak, red (bark)]; October 28, 1862, p. 3, c. 1 [pokeberry];
November 11,
1862, p. 1, c. 8
oak, white]; June 9,
1863, p.
1, c. 3 [logwood; plum roots; sassafras/swamp bay/butterfly root].
Dallas Herald, October 1, 1864, p. 2, c. 1.
Daniel,
Harriet Bailey Bullock. A
Remembrance of Eden: Harriet Bailey
Bullock
Daniel's
by Margaret
1993.
Dimond,
E. Grey and Herman Hattaway, eds. Letters
from Forest Place: A
Plantation
Family's
Correspondence, 1846-1881
Press of
Edmondston,
Catherine Ann Devereux. "Journal
of a Secesh Lady": The Diary
of
Crabtree
Department
Fleming,
Mary Love Edwards. "Dale
County and Its People During the Civil War"
Alabama
Historical Quarterly
19 (1957): 61-109.
Foster,
Helen Bradley. "New
Raiments of Self": African
American Clothing in the
Antebellum
South.
New York: Berg, 1997.
Galveston
Weekly News,
September 21, 1864, p. 2, c. 1 [prickly pear].
Hague,
Parthenia Antoinette. A
Blockaded Family: Life in Southern
Alabama
During the
Lincoln: University of
Handy,
Mrs. M. P. "Confederate
Make-Shifts." Harper's New Monthly
Magazine
(February
1876), pp. 576-580.
Hyatt,
Rebecca Dougherty. "Marthy Lou's Kiverlid":
A Sketch of Mountain Life.
Morristown,
TN: Triangle Press, 1937. [only the
dye specifically mentioned
from the
Civil War]
Instructions
for Washing Wool and Woollen Yarns, and for Dyeing Wool and Cotton,
Richmond:
Chas. H. Wynne, 1864.
Kitchen
Guild of the Tullie Smith House Restoration.
Tullie's Receipts: Nineteenth-
Atlanta
Historical Society, 1996. [Only
those receipts from Franklin Pierce
Brown's
scrapbook, ca. 1860]
Lincecum,
Gideon. Gideon Lincecum's Sword:
Civil War Letters from the Texas
Home
Peggy A.
Redshaw.
Denton, TX: University of
North Texas Press, 2001.
McDonald,
Mrs. Cornelia. A Diary With Reminiscences of the War and Refugee
Life in
the
Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865
Co., 1935.
Mead,
Elizabeth Kemp, The Oklahoma Indian-Pioneer Interviews,
http://www.novia.net/~vikia/FrancesKemp.html
Memphis
Daily Appeal [Jackson, MS],
February 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 6.
Millings,
Ella. "The Women of Vances"
in South Carolina Women in the
Confederacy.
Mobile
Register and Advertiser,
November 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 7 [walnut leaves];
November
[iron]; September
September 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
[indigo]
Memoirs
of
Dosia Williams Moore
Louisiana Tech
University,
1990.
Moore,
John Hammond. The Confederate Housewife: Receipts
& Remedies,
Together
Columbia, SC:
Porcher,
Francis P. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests.
Charleston:
Evans
[only those
other indication
Pryor,
Mrs. Roger A. Reminiscences of Peace and War.
Rev. ed. Freeport, NY:
Books
Redshaw,
Peggy A. "How Cloth Was Dyed
During the Civil War in Washington
County, Texas"
in 2001:
A Texas Folklore Odyssey. Edited
by Francis
Edward Abernethy.
Denton, TX: University of
North Texas Press, 2001,
pp. 234-245.
Savannah
[GA] Republican,
December 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 5 [iron]; November 3,
1863, p. 1,
c. 4 [walnut leaves]
Simons,
Mrs. Elizabeth Archer. Diary Kept by Mrs. Elizabeth Archer Simons,
Texana,
Texas,
August 31, 1862 – January 1, 1863
State Archives,
Southern
Banner
[Athens, GA], October 29, 1862, p. 3, c. 3 [walnut]; June 17,
1863, p. 1, c. 6 [red oak/maple]
Southern
Illustrated News, October
4, 1862 [plum]
Southern
Watchman
[Athens, GA], July 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 4 [chalybeate water];
November 25, 1863, p. 4, c. 1 [pomegranates;
elderberries; logwood;
sassafras;
Southern
Confederacy [Atlanta, GA] November 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 2 [walnut leaves]
State
Gazette
[Austin, TX], October 1, 1862, p. 1, c. 3 [sassafras/willow; black
jack oak]
Ward,
Evelyn D. The
Children of Bladensfield During the Civil War. New York:
Viking
Wilson,
Neal. "Confederate
Make-Shifts" Overland Monthly and Out
West
Magazine, 13
Colors
with no dye mentioned in the source of information:
Black,
gray, garnet, red, blue, green, plum, purple, slate
Dye
sources with no colors mentioned:
"barks
of trees;" "barks, roots, and leaves;" "the barks of trees,
from weeds, roots, red clay;" "roots and herbs;" "the bark
of trees and wild roots;" "herbs;" "roots and barks;"
"barks, leaves, twigs, and berries;" "from the plants growing in
great profusion in the land;" "the native barks;" "different
kinds of barks, leaves and nuts;" "red oak bark;" "sumac and
other woods and roots;" "wee have to collor with bark cannot buy Dye
of no kind;" "moss, weeds, and minerals from the earth on her
place;" "herbs, berries and nuts;" "the rind of
pomegranates;" "roots, herbs, and barks of the country"
Antebellum Dye Books
Androsko,
Rita. Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing: A
Practical Guide With Over 150
Woolens
Bemiss,
Elijah. The Dyer's Companion. 2nd
edition. New York:
Evert Duyckinck,
1815.
Enlarged reprint ed. New
York: Dover, 1973.
Bronson,
J. and R. The Domestic Manufacturer's Assistant and Family Directory in
the
Enlarged
York:
Dover,
Imswiler,
P. The
Family Dyer, Being a Complete Guide for Colouring Every Variety
of
Shade,
on Woolen, Cotton, Linen, and Silk Goods
1848.
Reprint
ed. Dayton, VA:
Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical
Society, 1998.