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Ancient
317 blueprints available
Blueprints (317)

Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements
by Astro
Astronomy
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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
59
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0
0
4
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
by Astro
Brass
53
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0
0
7
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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens
by Astro
Bronze
61
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3
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Hazardous
Making Han Purple — Ancient China's Synthetic Barium Copper Silicate Pigment
by Charlie
ART
62
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0
2
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Making Egyptian Blue — The World's First Synthetic Pigment
by Charlie
ART
54
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0
0
3
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Extracting Tyrian Purple from Murex Snails — The Most Precious Colour of Antiquity
by Charlie
ART
77
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2
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Making Indigo Pigment for Painting — Extracting the Blue Pigment Cake from Indigo Plant
by Charlie
ART
46
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0
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2
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Making Woad Blue Pigment — Europe's Ancient Blue Before Indigo
by Charlie
ART
70
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0
2
0

Hazardous
Synthesising Vermillion from Mercury and Sulfur — The King of Red Pigments
by Charlie
ART
52
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0
0
4
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Hazardous
Making Realgar Orange Pigment — The Arsenic Companion to Orpiment
by Charlie
ART
52
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0
0
0
0

Hazardous
Making Red Lead (Minium) — The Pigment That Named the Art of Miniature Painting
by Charlie
ART
89
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0
0
1
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Making Sepia Ink from Cuttlefish — The Natural Brown Ink of Mediterranean Artists
by Charlie
ART
145
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0
0
0
0

Hazardous
Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment
by Charlie
ART
60
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0
0
2
0

Hazardous
Making Orpiment Yellow Pigment — Grinding the Golden Arsenic Mineral of the Ancient World
by Charlie
ART
65
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0
2
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Making Azurite Blue Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into the Blue of Medieval Painting
by Charlie
ART
65
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0
0
4
0

Hazardous
Making Lead White (Flake White) — The Dutch Stack Process for the Most Important Pigment in Oil Painting History
by Charlie
ART
80
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0
0
5
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Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany
by Charlie
ART
57
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0
0
1
0

Hazardous
Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
by Charlie
Ancient
97
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0
0
8
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
by Charlie
Ancient
78
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0
0
6
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