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Ancient

317 blueprints available

Blueprints (317)

Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements

Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements

by AstroIS

Astronomy

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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe

Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe

by AstroIS

Renaissance (1400–1600)

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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky

Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky

by AstroIS

Brass

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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens

Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens

by AstroIS

Bronze

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Making Han Purple — Ancient China's Synthetic Barium Copper Silicate Pigment
Hazardous

Making Han Purple — Ancient China's Synthetic Barium Copper Silicate Pigment

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Egyptian Blue — The World's First Synthetic Pigment

Making Egyptian Blue — The World's First Synthetic Pigment

by CharlieDE

ART

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3
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Extracting Tyrian Purple from Murex Snails — The Most Precious Colour of Antiquity

Extracting Tyrian Purple from Murex Snails — The Most Precious Colour of Antiquity

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Indigo Pigment for Painting — Extracting the Blue Pigment Cake from Indigo Plant

Making Indigo Pigment for Painting — Extracting the Blue Pigment Cake from Indigo Plant

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Woad Blue Pigment — Europe's Ancient Blue Before Indigo

Making Woad Blue Pigment — Europe's Ancient Blue Before Indigo

by CharlieDE

ART

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Synthesising Vermillion from Mercury and Sulfur — The King of Red Pigments
Hazardous

Synthesising Vermillion from Mercury and Sulfur — The King of Red Pigments

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Realgar Orange Pigment — The Arsenic Companion to Orpiment
Hazardous

Making Realgar Orange Pigment — The Arsenic Companion to Orpiment

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Red Lead (Minium) — The Pigment That Named the Art of Miniature Painting
Hazardous

Making Red Lead (Minium) — The Pigment That Named the Art of Miniature Painting

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Sepia Ink from Cuttlefish — The Natural Brown Ink of Mediterranean Artists

Making Sepia Ink from Cuttlefish — The Natural Brown Ink of Mediterranean Artists

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment
Hazardous

Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Orpiment Yellow Pigment — Grinding the Golden Arsenic Mineral of the Ancient World
Hazardous

Making Orpiment Yellow Pigment — Grinding the Golden Arsenic Mineral of the Ancient World

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Azurite Blue Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into the Blue of Medieval Painting

Making Azurite Blue Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into the Blue of Medieval Painting

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Lead White (Flake White) — The Dutch Stack Process for the Most Important Pigment in Oil Painting History
Hazardous

Making Lead White (Flake White) — The Dutch Stack Process for the Most Important Pigment in Oil Painting History

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany

Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
Hazardous

Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World

by CharlieDE

Ancient

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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite

Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite

by CharlieDE

Ancient

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