Aha, fellow textile folks! The living history museum I work for does a lot with hand textile processes. Chemicals be damned, we work with a lot of natural dyes. Bill D, if you were suggesting you might send wood chips off to someone who could use them for dyeing, we'd be a happy recipient, especially of logwood, which was a popular imported dye during the late 18th century. By the way, speaking of toxic stuff, I understand that brazilwood dust or shavings can be very bad for the lungs, so if you're working with that I hope you're taking precautions! And while we're talking about weird color names, it was apparently osage orange that yielded khaiki (did I spell that right?) during WWI. Mary, I always equated powder blue with baby blue. What's the difference? Margaret