To dye silk a VIOLET or PURPLE with Logwood. - The Dyer's Guide / Being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c.; with the method of scouring wool, bleaching cotton, &c., and directions for ungumming silk, and for whitening and sulphuring silk and wool; and also an introductory epitome of the leading facts in chemistry, as connected with the art of dyeing - 26 - Thomas Packer

Another process for LILAC.To dye silk VIOLET with Brazil wood and Logwood.

To dye silk a VIOLET or PURPLE with Logwood.

The silk should be alumed and washed. The logwood should be boiled in large quantities like fustic, as as directed for green; but it should not be kept longer than two or three weeks; it is far better used cold than hot.