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Mapanganib
Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
ni Charlie
Modern
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7
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Mapanganib
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
ni Charlie
Middle Ages
25
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6
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
ni Charlie
Middle Ages
28
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8
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
ni Charlie
Ancient
23
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2
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
ni Charlie
Ancient
19
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3
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
ni Charlie
Prehistoric
41
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5
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
ni Charlie
Ancient
28
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3
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
ni Charlie
Ancient
36
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6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
ni Charlie
Prehistoric
69
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6
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
ni Charlie
Prehistoric
51
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7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
ni Charlie
Middle Ages
39
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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
ni Charlie
Ancient
41
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7
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Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood
ni Tex
Industrial
33
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1
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Mapanganib
Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop
ni Tex
Industry 2.0 — Electricity, Steel & Oil (1870)
56
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Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale
ni Tex
Cotton
17
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1
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Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive
ni Bob
Prehistoric
35
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0
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Building a Figure-4 Deadfall Trap — Stone Weight Trigger Mechanism
ni Bob
Prehistoric
28
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0
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0
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Setting a Simple Snare Trap on a Game Trail — Cordage Loop Hunting
ni Bob
Prehistoric
33
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1
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Drying Medicinal Herbs for Winter Storage — Preserving Nature's Pharmacy
ni Bob
Storage
30
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3
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Preparing a Yarrow Wound Poultice — Prehistoric Herbal First Aid
ni Bob
Prehistoric
31
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0
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5
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