crottle

How To Use crottle In A Sentence

• The film shows scenes of peat cutting, sheep shearing, the collecting of crottle for dying wool, and traditional tweed waulking amongst other scenes of life in detail on the island.
• Commonest of such crottles was Lecanora tartarea, better known as Cudbear.
• Crottle is bluish and leathery and was used to produce an orange or red dye. Times, Sunday Times
• The crottle lichen, the color of winter heather, used to be especially prized.
• The name was coined by George and Cuthbert Gordon who applied for a patent in 1758 which came about after George, a coppersmith from Banffshire, while mending a copper boiler in a London dye-house, noticed an orchil dye being used which was similar to his native crottles in the Highlands.
• The crottle is put into the bath with a sufficient quantity of water, boiled up, allowed to cool, then boiled up with the wool until the shade required is got. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
• This is dark crottle or puffed shield lichen, Parmelia physodes.
• Other dyers use it in the following way: A layer of crottle, a layer of wool, and so on until the bath is full; fill with cold water and bring to the boil, and boil till the colour is deep enough. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer