| Color | Source and comment
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| Blue, in all shades, was the favorite color, | and was dyed with indigo. So great was the demand for this dye-stuff that indigo-pedlers travelled over the country selling it.
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| Reds | Madder, cochineal, and logwood dyed beautiful
reds.
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| Browns and Yellow | The bark of Red Oak or Hickory made very pretty shades of brown and yellow.
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| Green | Various flowers growing on the farm could be used for dyes. The flower of the goldenrod, when pressed of its juice, mixed with indigo, and added to alum, made a beautiful green.
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| Crimson | The juice of the pokeberry boiled with Alum made crimson dye, and a violet juice from the petals of the iris, or " flower-de-luce," that blossomed in June meadows, gave a delicate light purple tinge to white wool.
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| Yellow and Orange | The bark of the Sassafras was used for dyeing yellow or orange color, and the flowers and leaves of the Balsam also.
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| Yellow | Fustic and copperas gave yellow dyes.
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| Black | A good black was obtained by boiling woollen cloth with a quantity of the leaves of the common Field-Sorrel, then boiling again with logwood and copperas.
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| Yellow | In the South there were scores of flowers and
leaves that could be used for dyes. During the
Revolutionary War one enterprising South Carolinian
got a guinea a pound for a yellow dye he
made from the Sweet-leaf or Horse-laurel.
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| Black | The leaves and berries of Gall-berry bush made a good black much used by hatters and Weavers.
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| Yellow | The root of the Barberry gave wool a beautiful yellow, as did the leaves of the Devil's-bit.
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| Yellow | The petals of Jerusalem artichoke and St.-John's-wort dyed yellow. Yellow root is a significant name and reveals its use.
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| Brown | Oak, walnut, or Maple bark dyed brown.
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